Rosa Artemus Horn

Rosa Artimus Horn (December 2, 1880 – May 11, 1976), also known as Mother Horn and the Pray for me Priestess, was an African-American Pentecostal church leader, preacher and radio host. She founded the "Pentecostal Faith Church for All Nations" in Harlem, New York City.

Biography Horn was born on December 2, 1880, in Sumter, South Carolina. Her grandparents had been enslaved, and her grandmother, Ellen Hamilton, had purchased her freedom and the freedom of her husband before Emancipation. and her mother Sarah Baker insisted that she attend a private school in Sumter. Horn worked as a seamstress in Augusta, Georgia, after leaving education. Frustrated by the refusal of some local Protestant denominations to ordain women, in 1930 Horn founded the "Pentecostal Faith Church for All Nations" in Harlem, New York City. The Church was also known as "Mount Calvary" She had established churches in five cities along the East Coast by 1934. from 1933.

In 1960, plainclothes police officers raided the barber shop located in Horn's Church loft. She ceased preaching in 1969.

Horn moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and died there on May 11, 1976, aged 95. She was buried in the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in New York.