Center Street A.M.E. Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located on S. Center Street in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a one-story, three bay by seven bay,

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style brick building. It has a steep gable roof sheathed in pressed tin and features two corner entrance towers of unequal height and a large, pointed arch stained glass window. The church also goes by the name Mount Pleasant AME Zion Church. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

History

The Center Street Church is the oldest church associated with a black congregation in Statesville. The building is the third associated with the Mount Zion A.M.E. Church, which was formed in 1868 or 1869 after the U.S. Civil War. The first two buildings were wood frame structures. The first church leaders were Sidney S. Murdock and Alfred Baily.

Other AME churches in Iredell County

Other AME Zion churches in Iredell County include: *Shiloh AME Zion Church on Salisbury Road in the Belmont area of Statesville, organized in 1880 *Piney Grove AME Zion Church in

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*Rocky Creek AME Zion Church in Harmony *Mt. Vernon AME Zion Church in Statesville *Siloam AME Zion Church in Harmony *Elmwood AME Zion Church in Elmwood, organized in 1908

References

African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches in North Carolina Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina Churches completed in 1903 20th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Iredell County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Iredell County, North Carolina {{NorthCarolina-church-stub