Berean Missionary Baptist Church (1880), Brooklyn, NY

Reverend Simon Bundick, a former pastor of Concord Baptist Church of Brooklyn, became the first Black pastor of the Berean Missionary Baptist Church.  Prior to that time, the church, being in an abolitionist climate, had mixed racial support.  The Berean Church was located on Prospect Place between Utica and Rochester avenues.  The church moved to its present location on Bergen Street, between Utica and Rochester Avenues, after purchasing land and building a brick structure in 1894. They later added additional wings and a parsonage. By 1961, a large new edifice was built to accommodate its growing congregation under the leadership of Reverend Hylton L. James and later Reverend Gus Roman.

(SOURCE: BEREAN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH)