Question: Who started the Mother Bethel Church dedicated to a religion founded by the black community in the city where Tom Ferrick was from?

<P0-S0> The state government left Philadelphia in 1799, and the federal government was moved to Washington, DC in 1800 with completion of the White House and Capitol. <P0-S1> The city remained the young nation's largest with a population of nearly 50,000 at the turn of the 19th century; it was a financial and cultural center. <P0-S2> Before 1800, its free black community founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent black denomination in the country, and the first black Episcopal Church. <P0-S3> The free black community also established many schools for its children, with the help of Quakers. <P0-S4> New York City soon surpassed Philadelphia in population, but with the construction of roads, canals, and railroads, Philadelphia became the first major industrial city in the United States. <SEP> <P1-S0> The church was organized by African - American members of St. George's Methodist Church who walked out due to racial segregation in the worship services. <P1-S1> Mother Bethel was one of the first African - American churches in the United States, dedicated July 29, 1794, by Bishop Francis Asbury. <P1-S2> On October 12, 1794, Reverend Robert Blackwell announced that the congregation was received in full fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church. <P1-S3> In 1816 Rev Richard Allen brought together other black Methodist congregations from the region to organize the new African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination. <P1-S4> He was elected bishop of this denomination. <P1-S5> After the American Civil War, its missionaries went to the South to help freedmen and planted many new churches in the region. <SEP> <P2-S0> house also had an influence of relaying political messages to people who were considered to be outcasts of society. <P2-S1> the music appealed to those who didn't fit into mainstream american society and was especially celebrated by many black males. <P2-S2> frankie knuckles once said that the warehouse club in chicago was like "church for people who have fallen from grace" the house producer marshall jefferson compared it to "old-time religion in the way that people just get happy and screamin'". <P2-S3> deep house was similar to many of the messages of freedom for the black community. <SEP> <P3-S0> Tom Ferrick, Jr. (1949) is an editor, reporter and columnist long active in print and web journalism in Philadelphia. <P3-S1> Until 2013, Ferrick served as senior editor of Metropolis, a local news and information site based in Philadelphia that he founded in 2009. <P3-S2> Prior to that, Ferrick worked as a reporter, editor and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. <P3-S3> He had been a columnist at the Inquirer since 1998 but left the newspaper in 2008. <P3-S4> The Philadelphia native has spent nearly 40 years as a journalist, focusing mostly on government <SEP> <P4-S0> bethany is a city in oklahoma county, oklahoma, united states, and a part of the oklahoma city metropolitan area. <P4-S1> the community was founded in 1909 by followers of the church of the nazarene from oklahoma city.