Zion Baptist Church

Photograph

Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Zion Baptist Church

Entry/Object ID

IMG3669 ve

Description

African American church built in 1921 after a 1918 fire destroyed the original church organized by former enslaved people and built in 1881; original church named Second Baptist Church. Upper: date unknown, Second Baptist Church (JCBHPS) Lower left: prior to 2009, photographed by Nathaniel Downing (JCBHPS) Lower right: 2019 (IMG3618)

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

801 Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, Charles Town, West Virginia