Payne Seminary

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Payne Theological Seminary began two years after Wilberforce University, a university founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) in 1856 to educate all people regardless of race, creed or gender. Payne was established to train AME clergy and is named after David Payne, the first president of Wilberforce. The new chapel of Payne has eight large stained glass windows (approximately 4 x 16) that commemorate both religious figures and leaders important to African American history. The leaders depicted include Moses, Jesus, St. Paul, Martin Luther, John Wesley ( founder of Methodism), Wilberforce (British abolitionist), Richard Allen (founder of the AME church), and David Payne.