Two Spires

 

Edenton Street UMC

(here)

St. Paul AME church

(here)

Two churches, one block apart in downtown Raleigh share an intertwined history.  Edenton Street UMC began in 1811.  St. Paul AME began as the slave membership of Edenton, and became their own congregation in 1848. In 1865 they severed their ties and St. Paul became an AME church.