St John’s Maroon Church

St. John's Maroon Church is a Methodist church in Maroon Town, a neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. It is one of the country's oldest churches. The church is regarded as one of the most beautiful historical sites in Sierra Leone.

The Maroons increasingly abandoned their African beliefs in favor of Christianity. In 1820, they were granted land in Maroon Town between Percival and Liverpool Streets. Unhappy with the conditions of worship in Nova Scotian chapels, a group led by Charles Shaw Harding established St. John's Maroon Church in 1822. A short white wall surrounds the small white building.

While the Maroons progressively incorporated into Freetown society, many of them remained churchgoers. They practiced their own style of Methodism, remaining independent of the Methodist establishment until 1900.

The congregation has shrunk, yet it still exists. In 2007, the congregation of St John's Maroon Church celebrated the 200th anniversary of its foundation. Under the Monuments and Relics Ordinance on 1 June 1947, the church was designated a national historic site in 1956.