Abdullah ibn Saba is a character whose existence is questioned, and whose opinions about it are controversial. It should not be confused with the Jewish scholar who converted to Islam, Abdullah ibn Salam who resided in Medina at the time of Muhammad.

The holy places of Islam are the places to which the Islamic tradition devotes the utmost importance. They were the scene of events of early Islam.

The Diocese of New York, founded in 1808 is converted to an archdiocese by Pope Pius IX in 1850. Archbishop John Joseph Hughes makes a decision to erect a new church to replace the old church of St.

Samuel Seabury was born in Ledyard, Connecticut in 1729. His father, whose name was also Samuel Seabury , originally a Congregational minister in Groton, was ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England in 1731 and was rector in New London, Coannecticut, 1732 to 1743, then in Hempstead on Long Island from 1743 until his death.