Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning (center), senior pastor of Ebenezer AME Church, kneels down in prayer upon entering the pulpit. Pastor Browning and Co-Pastor Jo Ann Browning (center, ri

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white photograph of services at Ebenezer AME Church taken from an elevated vantage point. Two video screens are on either side of a pipe organ in the background. A choir is in front of the pipe organ and a band is in front of the choir. At the center of the photograph is the churches alter with several people standing and sitting on it. At the center of the alter is Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning, Jr. He is kneeling before a chair with his back towards the congregation and camera. Several rows of pews with churchgoers sitting in them are in the foreground. No inscriptions on the front or back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1997; printed 2012
• Photograph by: Jason Miccolo Johnson, American
• Subject of: Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, American, founded 1856
• Subject of: Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning Jr., American
• Subject of: Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning, American
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 15 7/8 x 19 13/16 in. (40.3 x 50.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 12 7/16 x 18 3/4 in. (31.6 x 47.6 cm)
• Place captured: Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Prayer
• Topic: Religion
• Object number: 2012.141.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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