Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church | |
Location: | Pensacola, Florida |
Coordinates: | 30.4181°N -87.2244°W |
Architect: | Wallace Rayfield |
Architecture: | Eclecticism |
Added: | December 24, 2013 |
Refnum: | 13000963[1] |
Built: | 1918 |
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.
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.