IllmaticDelta
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great thread
Black/AA Spiritualist Churches and Temples
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xoxodede
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Oh my! This is dope. Especially the pictures - that looks exactly like my Temple in terms of dress. It's so interesting they are "of Christ" -- I wonder if they are still open. I wanna attend next time I'm Chicago.
Getting this book asap. Thanks!
Gotta check this out...this is what the dvd boxcover looks like
3-4 shorts........The one written by JHC is the only I've ever watched...
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I honestly think there are many similarities - between the two--well at least at the beginning of the movement.
For instance, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason. The founder - you can see the items he used during his services. He also gave oils, prayer handkerchiefs, special items, etc to his members.
Charles Harrison Mason Sr. (September 8, 1864 – November 17, 1961) was an American Pentecostal–Holiness pastor and minister. He was the founder and first Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, based in Memphis, Tennessee. It developed into what is today the largest Pentecostal church denomination and one of the largest predominantly African-American Christian denominations in the United States.
He definitely was what I would have classified as a spiritualist. Hoodoo and Rootwork is at the root of AA/Black Church.
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his songs are real popular even with white folks lol
xoxodede
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Today, I learned about Louis H. Narcisse while reading "The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times" -- and I am in love.
I have never seen a church/temple like mine - the one I grew up in and still attend represented so accurate/well on video. I can tell this is a Spiritualism Church.
Here is a full editorial in Ebony: Ebony
Louis H. Narcisse (April 27, 1921 – February 3, 1989),[1][2] also known as King Louis H. Narcisse, was an African-American religious leader and the founder of the Mt. Zion Spiritual Church.[3] He claimed religious leaders of the time such as Father Divine, Daddy Grace and, James F. Jones were his divine predecessors.
He was an organizer and spiritual healer in Oakland, California. He was also a gospel minister, vocalist, musician, and composer with whom gospel singer Mahalia Jackson often collaborated. He was the uncle of renowned African-American gospel singer Bessie Griffin (July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989).[4] They died within days of each other in 1989.
Louis Herbert Narcisse was born on April 27, 1921, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Stella Narcisse. His father, Jesse Narcisse, was killed in a shipboard accident before his birth. The youngest of four siblings, Narcisse came from a devout Baptist family. At an early age, young Narcisse knew that he had been touched by the hand of God.[5] His family found out early on that Narcisse was something very special, a religious child prodigy who was reserved but loved to pray and sing spiritual music.[5] His singing talents were first locally recognized in New Orleans when he was a teenager, where Narcisse won five radio auditions. As a teen, he became a soloist at church services and funerals.
Ministry
At 18 years old, Narcisse entered into the Christian ministry in the summer of 1939. Narcisse migrated to California during World War II when God spoke to him to come to California. He found a job in Hunter's Point Shipyards in San Francisco, California as an electrical worker earning $85 a week. He lived at a Hunter's Point War World II Housing Project.[3]
In South San Francisco the Mt. Zion movement began with a small prayer meeting,"[2][3] from there Narcisse founded Mount Zion Spiritual Temple in Oakland on November 8, 1945 under the credo "It's nice to be nice." The church was named after his boyhood church in New Orleans, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, which had been the place of his baptism, but Narcisse's Mount Zion Spiritual Temple was actually a Spiritualist church in the African-American Spiritual Church Movement tradition. As his popularity grew, he presided over several churches in Oakland, Sacramento, Houston, and Detroit, and travelled between them.
Louis H. Narcisse - Wikipedia
He was an organizer and spiritual healer in Oakland, California. He was also a gospel minister, vocalist, musician, and composer with whom gospel singer Mahalia Jackson often collaborated. He was the uncle of renowned African-American gospel singer Bessie Griffin (July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989).[4] They died within days of each other in 1989.
Louis Herbert Narcisse was born on April 27, 1921, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Stella Narcisse. His father, Jesse Narcisse, was killed in a shipboard accident before his birth. The youngest of four siblings, Narcisse came from a devout Baptist family. At an early age, young Narcisse knew that he had been touched by the hand of God.[5] His family found out early on that Narcisse was something very special, a religious child prodigy who was reserved but loved to pray and sing spiritual music.[5] His singing talents were first locally recognized in New Orleans when he was a teenager, where Narcisse won five radio auditions. As a teen, he became a soloist at church services and funerals.
Ministry
At 18 years old, Narcisse entered into the Christian ministry in the summer of 1939. Narcisse migrated to California during World War II when God spoke to him to come to California. He found a job in Hunter's Point Shipyards in San Francisco, California as an electrical worker earning $85 a week. He lived at a Hunter's Point War World II Housing Project.[3]
In South San Francisco the Mt. Zion movement began with a small prayer meeting,"[2][3] from there Narcisse founded Mount Zion Spiritual Temple in Oakland on November 8, 1945 under the credo "It's nice to be nice." The church was named after his boyhood church in New Orleans, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, which had been the place of his baptism, but Narcisse's Mount Zion Spiritual Temple was actually a Spiritualist church in the African-American Spiritual Church Movement tradition. As his popularity grew, he presided over several churches in Oakland, Sacramento, Houston, and Detroit, and travelled between them.
Louis H. Narcisse - Wikipedia
I have never seen a church/temple like mine - the one I grew up in and still attend represented so accurate/well on video. I can tell this is a Spiritualism Church.
Here is a full editorial in Ebony: Ebony
IllmaticDelta
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Today, I learned about Louis H. Narcisse while reading "The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times" -- and I am in love.
I have some of his music on my HD. A good mix
King Louis H. Narcisse* - It's So Nice To Be Nice
xoxodede
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Yeah! I am adding him to my favorites now. He was close to Mahalia Jackson and he was the Uncle of the legendary Bessie Griffin.
IllmaticDelta
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With Father Devine
tuning in now, thanks for this
DoubleClutch
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To those in this thread and the creator, What sparked your interest in this topic?
xoxodede
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See OP. I was raised in and still a member of a historic ADOS Spiritualist Church back home.
DoubleClutch
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And what is the name of that church today. Does it exist the same now as it did back in the day?
I thought the ADOS Spiritualist was a movement/era that ended.