Mt. Sinai Baptist Church is a historic

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located at 512 Henry Street in

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, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story,

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style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and it has tall gable front flanked by square two-stage crenellated

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s incorporated at each corner. It features pointed arch tower windows and brightly colored stained glass. It is the oldest African-American Baptist Church in Eden. It was added to the

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in 1987.

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