Mount Zion Baptist Church

Description:

Mount Zion Baptist Church is a brick structure which features a gabled roof and right form tower.

The church congregation was originally founded within the Old Bell Church in Freedman's Village in 1866. In the late-1860s the Old Bell Church was demolished and the church split into two congregations - Mt. Olive and Mt. Zion Baptist churches. Both formed in the community of Queen City. In 1942 the federal government condemned the church and surrounding community to make way for the road networks of the Pentagon. The congregation moved to Green Valley where they opened the current church in July on 1945.


Date:

1866

Creator:

None recorded.

Source:

Photograph by Author, 2013.

Subject

None recorded.

Identifier

None recorded.

Contributor

None recorded.

Rights

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. CC BY-NC-SA.

Citation

“Mount Zion Baptist Church,” Built By the People Themselves, accessed October 7, 2024, https://lindseybestebreurtje.org/arlingtonhistory/items/show/36.

Geolocation

Mt Zion Baptist Church 1.JPG