Central Congregational Church

Central Congregational took its form in 1872, when worshippers from St. James and Morris Brown AME churches and University Church at Straight University incorporated it. Capt. James H. Ingraham and the Rev. Charles H. Thompson founded it, and its thirty-two original members included four state legislators: James Lewis, Cesar Antoine and the brothers Thomas and Robert Isabelle. It became a center of political activism in Reconstruction, and in 1921 it hosted the interracial Southern Sociological Congress. After Hurricane Katrina it merged with St. Matthew, becoming Central St. Matthew United Church of Christ in 2014.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.8 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.9 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 1.2 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 1.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Dooky Chase's Restaurant — 0.3 mi
• Oscar James Dunn — 0.5 mi
• Dominique You — 0.5 mi
• Jordan B. Noble — 0.6 mi