The Eastside Baptist Church in

Okmulgee, Oklahoma Okmulgee is a city in, and the county seat of, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The name is from the Mvskoke word ''okimulgee,'' which means "boiling waters".Bamburg, Maxine"Okmulgee,"''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed June 16 ...

is a historic

Baptist church Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...

located at 219 N. Osage Avenue. It is home to a congregation established in 1903, as the

Zion Zion ( he, צִיּוֹן ''Ṣīyyōn'', LXX , also variously transliterated ''Sion'', ''Tzion'', ''Tsion'', ''Tsiyyon'') is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole (see Names ...

Bethel Church, which met at a frame residence at the location of the present church. The church was built in 1921, and was added to the National Register in 1984. It is on the

National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Okmulgee County, O ...

. The building was deemed significant as the second-oldest black church building in Okmulgee, and one of the "oldest unaltered black churches in eastern Oklahoma." With

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African-American history of Oklahoma Baptist churches in Oklahoma Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Churches completed in 1921 Buildings and structures in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma 1921 establishments in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-church-stub