African Zion Baptist Church

4104 Malden Dr., Malden, West Virginia. County/parish: Kanawha.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 27, 1974. NRIS 74002010.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

African Zion Baptist Church

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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535511

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