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African Zion Baptist Church
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African Zion Baptist Church, September 1979
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| Location: | 4104 Malden Dr., Malden, West Virginia |
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| Area: | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built: | 1872 |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 74002010[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | December 27, 1974 |
African Zion Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 4104 Malden Drive in Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It is a one-story frame structure built atop a stone foundation. It has a gable roof topped by a wooden bell tower. This is considered the mother church of African-American Baptists in West Virginia, many of whom migrated there after the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Among its noted members were "Father" Lewis Rice, founder of the church and a leader of the early African-American community in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia, and Booker T. Washington.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
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