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Mount Zion Baptist Church or Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church or variations may refer to: United States (by state)
Edward Victor Hill Sr. (November 10, [1] 1933 – February 24, 2003) was an American pastor. He was senior pastor at the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California from 1961 until his death; under his leadership, it became one of the largest African-American congregations in the US. [2]
The towers are joined by a three-bay porch sheltering the building's main entrance. The church was built in 1909 for an African-American congregation established in 1886, and has been a major cultural focus for that community since. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
Mt. Zion Church was organized in 1873 by former slaves and sons of slaves. The land for the church building was purchased that same year. [2] The current church building was built in 1902 after an earlier building was destroyed by fire. [2] [3] It is a two-story brick and stone building of Gothic Revival design.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, also known as the Enola Baptist Church, is a historic church at 249 AR 107 in Enola, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of local fieldstone with cream-colored brick trim. The main block has a gabled roof, with a projecting vestibule and entrance sheltered by a gabled roof.
Leonard N. Smith (born October 4, 1961 – February 20, 2022) was the senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, with a congregation exceeding 2,000. [1] Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded in 1866, is the oldest Black congregation in Arlington, Virginia.
Mt. Zion Christian Church, Richmond, Kentucky; Mount Zion Church and Cemetery (Hallsville, Missouri), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Boone County; Mount Zion Brick Church, Barada, Nebraska, listed on the NRHP in Richardson County; Mount Zion Church (Big Sandy, Tennessee), once listed on the NRHP in Benton County
The organization was officially incorporated as The Robert Johnson Mount Zion Memorial Fund in late 1989, to raise money to save the 114-year-old Mount Zion Church (founded 1909) from foreclosure and to place a cenotaph historic marker (not a headstone as is often mistaken – the monument bears no birth/death dates) in the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church cemetery, in honor of Robert ...