page_title: African Zion Baptist Church
hierarchical_section_title: African Zion Baptist Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of the African Zion Baptist Church, located at 4305 Salines Drive in Malden, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1872, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is part of the Register-listed Malden Historic District.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: African Zion Baptist Church, September 1979
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