Eastside Baptist Church

219 N. Osage Ave., Okmulgee, Oklahoma. County/parish: Okmulgee.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 23, 1984. NRIS 84000306.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Eastside Baptist Church

The Eastside Baptist Church in Okmulgee, Oklahoma is a historic Baptist church located at 219 N. Osage Avenue.

It is home to a congregation established in 1903, as the Zion Bethel Church, which met at a frame residence at the location of the present church. The church was built in 1921, and was added to the National Register in 1984.

It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The building was deemed significant as the second-oldest black church building in Okmulgee, and one of the "oldest unaltered black churches in eastern Oklahoma."

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86510377

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