2315 Fayetteville Street

35.970613, -78.901116

2315
Fayetteville Street
Durham
NC
Cross Street
Martha Street
Neighborhood
College Heights
Use
Church
Building Type
Church
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2315 Fayetteville, c. 1970.

Built on the site of an earlier church known as Good Hope Baptist, the opening of this structure in fall 1936 was accompanied by the congregation's name change to Mount Zion Baptist. James E. Shepard, President of nearby North Carolina College (later NCCU), spoke at the inaugural service.

Mount Zion sold the building to Solid Rock Full Gospel Church in 1992.

Church at 2315 Fayetteville, December 2022.
Former Mount Zion Baptist Church building, looking northeast from the corner of Fayetteville and Martha, December 2022 (N. Levy).

 

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Submitted by Aaron Thompson (not verified) on Tue, 6/10/2014 - 10:24pm

This is the former Mt. Zion Baptist Church. It was a prominent African-American Church through the 1960s. I joined Cub Scout Pack 149 there which was part of Boy Scout Troop 149. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the congregation split and the church became Mt. Zion Christian Church at the same location.

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