African Zion Baptist Church

Historic church in West Virginia, United States

United States historic place


African Zion Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property

African Zion Baptist Church, September 1979
38°17′58″N 81°33′26″W / 38.29944°N 81.55722°W / 38.29944; -81.55722
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1872
NRHP reference No.	74002010^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1974

African Zion Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 4104 Malden Drive in Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It is within the Malden Historic District.

It is a one-story frame structure built atop a stone foundation. It has a gable roof topped by a wooden bell tower. This is considered the mother church of African-American Baptists in West Virginia, many of whom migrated there after the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Among its noted members were "Father" Lewis Rice, founder of the church and a leader of the early African-American community in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia, and Booker T. Washington.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ James E. Harding (September 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: African Zion Baptist Church" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-02.

External links

Media related to African Zion Baptist Church (Malden, West Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-210-6, "Malden Historic District, African Zion Baptist Church, 4104 Malden Drive, Malden, Kanawha County, WV", 3 photos, 2 measured drawings, 7 data pages
e-WV, The West Virginia Encyclopedia: African Zion Baptist Church article