African Zion Baptist Church

	African Zion Baptist Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	African Zion Baptist Church, September 1979
Location	4104 Malden Dr., Malden, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°17′58″N 81°33′26″W / 38.29944°N 81.55722°W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1872
NRHP reference No.	74002010
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[edit]

^ ^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[edit]

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

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[dhr-2] 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.

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