Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

This church, founded in 1866, is the oldest Black congregation in Akron. After worshipping in several locations, the congregation held a fund-raiser to help finance the construction of a permanent home. The person collecting the most money had the privilege ...

Mount Zion A.M.E. Church

A Bicentennial commemorative site recognizing America’s 200th year of liberty

Mount Zion A.M.E. Church

The Oldest Black Church in Trenton

Incorporated by slaves and freedmen 1811

Original edifice this site 1819

Member Founding Conference African Methodism

Trenton Bicentennial Committee

(Cornerstone)

Greater Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church.

Rt. Rev. D. Ward ...

Mount Zion United Methodist Church

This congregation was organized in 1809. Services were held in a structure that was first known as Elzey Moore's Meeting House, and later renamed Wesley Chapel. With the closing of Wesley in 1852, the congregation was divided. On January 8, ...

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Virginia and other southern states began to legislate social segregation, along racial lines. Additional laws that imposed poll taxes and literacy tests established hurdles to voting along economic lines. Between 1900 and 1902, ...

Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1845, Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest congregation of African descent in Delaware, with Reverend Daniel Winslow serving as the first minister. In 1853 the cornerstone of the first church was laid, which was dedicated in ...

Mount Zion United Methodist Church and Heritage Center, and the

1334 29th Street, NW

Mount Zion United Methodist Church is Washington’s oldest Black congregation. It was established in 1816 by Shadrack Nugent and 125 other congregants who split from nearby Montgomery Street Methodist Church (now Dumbarton United Methodist) over its racial ...

Zion Methodist Church

The Edge of the Storm

Virginia churches suffered heavily in the Civil War, being used by contending armies as headquarters, hospitals and barracks. Zion Church was no exception. In August 1862, Union soldiers stopped briefly at the church during an expedition ...

Zion Baptist Church

Zion Baptist Church is home to one of the oldest African American congregations in Westmoreland County. Before slavery ended,

according to local tradition, services were

first held under a dogwood bush arbor on

Gawen’s Farm, near Tucker Hill, approximately

one and a half miles ...

Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery

(Front):

Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded as early as 1804 as an affiliated branch of Bethlehem Baptist Church, was formally established in 1827. The cemetery here, dating from 1832, includes the graves of many early church families and of several veterans ...

First Cambria A.M.E. Zion Church

Formed 1873 in the loft of the Woodvale Tannery by workers there. Organized as Cambria Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 1874, at Napoleon and Dibert Sts. About 1877 it moved here. Washed from its foundation in the 1889 flood but later ...