St. Peter Claver’s Roman Catholic Church (1892) Philadelphia, PA.

*ST. PETER CLOVER CHURCH, 122th LOMBARD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, FEB. 1938 (c. EGAN, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE ARCHIVES)

Named in honor of a humanitarian whose efforts on behalf of African emancipation won him the title, “Apostle of the Slave Trade,” this church was dedicated in 1892 for African-American Catholics.  St. Peter Claver, a native of Catalonia, Spain, was born about 1518. During the 1920s, the church hosted performances of various Black literary and dramatic groups.

(SOURCE: ST. PETER CLAVER’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH)