Emanuel Nine Memorial

Emanuel Nine Memorial Honoring the Emanuel Nine, victims and survivors of a tragic racially motivated mass murder. Join us to share stories of resilience, support unity and healing.

Together, we ensure their memory lives on.

After his mother, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, was killed at Mother Emanuel on June 17th, 2015, Chris Singleton ...
09/30/2026

After his mother, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, was killed at Mother Emanuel on June 17th, 2015, Chris Singleton stood in front of a crowd and said, “Love is stronger than hate.”

He was eighteen years old.

In the eleven years since, he has built a career around that choice. He speaks. He writes. He teaches. His work centers on unity, resilience, and choosing love over hate.

It is not just a message. It is his mother’s memory, carried forward.

“Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church” by Kevin Sack has been nam...
09/25/2026

“Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church” by Kevin Sack has been named the 2026 Nonfiction Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

The award honors writing that advances peace, social justice, and understanding. Kevin’s book does that work across more than two hundred years of Mother Emanuel’s history, from its founding through June 17, 2015, and the years that followed.

Kevin recently joined the board of the Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation, and we are honored to celebrate this recognition with him.

Phase 1 of the Emanuel Nine Memorial is nearly complete. Phase 2 is next, the Survivors Garden.The garden will honor the...
09/23/2026

Phase 1 of the Emanuel Nine Memorial is nearly complete. Phase 2 is next, the Survivors Garden.

The garden will honor the five people who lived through June 17, 2015: Polly Sheppard, Felicia Sanders, Ka’maya Manigault, Jennifer Pinckney, and Malana Pinckney.

The garden will feature a lawn surrounded by a bench and a Live Oak tree to represent each survivor.

Executive Director Deona Smith has said, “We talk a lot about the Emanuel Nine. Very few people talk about the survivors. It’s very important that we not forget them, and that we make sure that Survivors Garden is built.”

Support the garden at emanuelnine.org.

The Survivors Garden is supported in part by the Spaulding Paolottzo Foundation.

On September 21st, 1989, Hurricane Hugo made landfall on the South Carolina coast.The Category 4 storm devastated Charle...
09/21/2026

On September 21st, 1989, Hurricane Hugo made landfall on the South Carolina coast.

The Category 4 storm devastated Charleston. Mother Emanuel was among the buildings damaged. So were homes, streets, and steeples across the Lowcountry.

The city rebuilt itself, neighbor by neighbor. Church by church.

Charleston endures storms by helping each other through them.

Phase 1 of the Emanuel Nine Memorial opens on November 14th, 2026, and we need your help.We are currently accepting appl...
09/18/2026

Phase 1 of the Emanuel Nine Memorial opens on November 14th, 2026, and we need your help.

We are currently accepting applications for volunteers. Applicants who are selected will be invited to attend a training session in early October.

If you’d like to get involved, apply today at emanuelnine.org/volunteer (linked in bio) or email [email protected] with any questions.

Save the date. The Emanuel Nine Memorial will open to the public on November 14th, 2026, in Charleston, South Carolina.D...
09/15/2026

Save the date. The Emanuel Nine Memorial will open to the public on November 14th, 2026, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Designed by architect Michael Arad, who also designed the National 9/11 Memorial, the memorial is a permanent public space honoring the Emanuel Nine, the five survivors, and all those impacted by the historic tragedy of June 17, 2015.

“This Memorial gives people a place to remember them, learn their stories and reflect on how each of us can help build a future rooted in understanding, compassion and love,” said Executive Director Deona Smith.

Admission will be free.
We hope you’ll join us this fall.

Twenty-five years ago today, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks. The loss still shapes us.Micha...
09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago today, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks. The loss still shapes us.

Michael Arad designed the memorial at Ground Zero. He is also the architect of the Emanuel Nine Memorial.

Two different losses. Two different memorials. Both built to remember, and to move us toward a better world.

09/10/2026

Executive Director Deona Smith will be on The Joy Reid Show this Monday, September 14, at 7:40 PM ET.

She’ll be sharing an exciting announcement about the Emanuel Nine Memorial, so be sure to tune in.

The bell tower at Mother Emanuel was added in 1903.For more than 120 years, its octagonal copper-clad steeple has stood ...
09/09/2026

The bell tower at Mother Emanuel was added in 1903.

For more than 120 years, its octagonal copper-clad steeple has stood over Charleston. Through Hurricane Hugo. Through the funerals of 2015. Through every Sunday since it was raised.

It still calls people to worship.

09/02/2026

These words name love as a binding, not a feeling.

At Mother Emanuel, that has been the practice for more than two centuries. Love has held the congregation through destruction, through silencing, through grief, through attack.

Love does more than remain. It binds.

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120 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
29401

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 1pm

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