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 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.

References

External links

e-WV, The West Virginia Encyclopedia: African Zion Baptist Church article

Category:African-American history of West Virginia
Category:Baptist churches in West Virginia
Category:Churches in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in West Virginia
Category:Churches completed in 1872
Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in West Virginia
Category:Historic district contributing properties in West Virginia
Category:Wooden churches in West Virginia