Metropolitan Baptist Church

Billy Yalowitz, the play’s director, writes, “In April 1998, a forty-person cast comprising Penn students, UCHS students and teachers, and Black Bottom community members performed Black Bottom Sketches at the local Metropolitan Baptist Church, which many Black Bottomers remembered as the site of teenage dances and socials.” The church is located at 3500 Baring St., in the West Powelton neighborhood.