Our History

Mount Sinai African Methodist Episcopal Church is located in the county of Chatham in the town of Pittsboro, North Carolina.  Pittsboro was established as a town in 1785.  It became the county seat in 1787. Mount Sinai African Methodist Episcopal Church had its beginning in the early 1870’s, when the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Female Academy of the Town of Pittsboro, bargained, sold and conveyed to Anthony Reaves, Benjamin Thompson, Morris Ragland and Thomas Taylor, a parcel of land known as Lot #105 which, at the time, stood for the Female Academy of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The cost of the land was $25.00 per acre.