Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic church at 900 Cross Street in

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. It is a buff brick structure with modest

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features on its exterior, with a three-part facade articulated by brick

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s, and a trio of entrances set in the center section above a raised basement. The interior of the church is extremely elaborate in its decoration, with a pressed-metal ceiling, elaborate central copper light fixture, and banks of stained glass windows. The church was built in 1926 for a predominantly African-American congregation founded in 1877. The building was listed on the

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in 1987.

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Baptist churches in Arkansas Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Prairie School architecture in Arkansas Churches completed in 1926 Churches in Little Rock, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas {{LittleRockAR-stub

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