Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic African-American

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located at 413 N. Church Street in

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. The sanctuary was built in 1907, and is a red brick

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style building. It features stained glass lancet windows and small triangular shaped windows and former towers capped by octagonal conical roofs. A brick-veneered educational/manse wing added between 1913 and 1920. It was listed on the

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in 1985.

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