Mount Zion Baptist Church organizes in Seattle on February 18, 1894.

  • By Helen Lacy
  • Posted 11/07/1998
  • HistoryLink.org Essay 260
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On February 18, 1894, the Mount Zion Baptist Church formally organizes in Seattle.

Charter members at the organizational meeting were: B. F. Ward, Robert W. Butler, Mrs. E. W. Butler, Mrs. Eliza Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark.

The church incorporated in 1903.


Sources:

Esther Hall Mumford. Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901. (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980), 158, 159.


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