Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church | |
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, September 2014. | |
Location | Pensacola, Florida |
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Coordinates | 30°25′05″N 87°13′28″W / 30.41806°N 87.22444°W |
Built | 1918 |
Architect | Wallace Rayfield |
Architectural style | Eclecticism |
NRHP reference No. | 13000963 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 24, 2013 |
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a national historic site located at 528 West Jackson Street, Pensacola, Florida in Escambia County. It is the second oldest black Baptist church in Pensacola. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 24, 2013. [1]
In 1880, the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church broke away from the John the Baptist Church over a philosophical dispute. Reverend H.E. Jones led a campaign to construct a new church and enlisted Wallace Rayfield to design it. In 1944 and 1945, the church's Reverend R.A. Cromwell successfully challenged the all-white Democratic primary in Florida. [1]