Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Home to one of the oldest and most prominent black congregations of South Florida, this structure is noted for its Mediterranean Revival design. The Mt. Zion congregation helped raise funds to build Miami's black-owned Christian Hospital.

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Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church

The congregation organized in 1895 as the first Baptist church for black people in Dade County. The church was then known as the Fifty-Six Members Church, and met in a local home. The name was later changed to St. Agnes ...

St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church

Founded by Charlie Chambers in 1908 and named in honor of his daughter, this was the first black church in Dania and housed the first colored school. The bell tolled to call the congregation to service and to mark the ...

The Johnson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church

The only remaining rural church in southern Sarasota County dating from the 1910s, Johnson Chapel was built as the Osprey Missionary Baptist Church in 1915 on the west side of the Tamiami Trail in Osprey, six miles north of Laurel, ...

Macedonia Baptist Church

The oldest African American church in Naples, this church was organized in 1929, and relocated to its present site in 1952. The new, Gothic-style church building was dedicated in 1954, the annex was built in 1973, and the church was ...

St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church

St. Mark was founded in the late 1880s by Punta Gorda's African American pioneer, area businessman and civic leader, Dan Smith. Smith named the church and was ordained as the first deacon. Dan Smith's wife Louisa Evans was a Baptist, ...

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

The last building standing from the Freemanville community, a settlement of freed slaves. Built in 1911, it still serves as a place of worship for descendants of those original settlers.

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First Providence Missionary Baptist Church

Organized in 1856 as the Colored Providence Baptist Church, the congregation is the oldest black church in Polk County. Known today as the First Providence Missionary Baptist Church, it is located in one of Polk County's oldest settlements of West ...

Old Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The congregation first met in a shed in 1919, and erected this stone church in 1920. This Romanesque style building now houses the Tabernacle of the Enlightened Church of God.

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Second Bethel Baptist Church

This frame vernacular style building was completed in 1888 and served as a school for the black community. The pastor, the Reverend Henry Shaw, was the first to minister to the local African American turpentine, sawmill and phosphate workers.

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