African Zion Baptist Church

Kanawha County, US

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 th

e 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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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