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Description
Title
Mt
.
Zion
CME
Church
:
interior
4
Creator(s)
West
,
Carroll
Van
Date
1996
Coverage
1990-1999
Property name
Mt. Zion Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Property type
Church
National Register Reference
01000140
listed
2001/02/16
Community Name
Union City, Obion County, TN
Description
Black
and
white
photograph
of
church
interior
;
wood
pulpit
with
microphone
;
two
arched
windows
in
background
.
Historical Notes
The
congregation
of
Mt
.
Zion
CME
Church
dates
back
to
1870
, as
it
formed
soon
after
the
split
from the
Methodist
Episcopal
Church
,
South
,
which
was the
largest
white
congregation
then in
Obion
County
,
TN
. A
new
church
building
was
dedicated
in
1896
to
celebrate
the
first
25
years
of the
church's
existence
. The
new
building
was the
largest
brick
structure
yet
constructed
for
African-American
religious
services
in
Union
City
.
It
is
the
sole
,
largely
unaltered
example
of
African-American
constructed
Victorian
architecture
, in its
case
a
Gothic
Revival-influenced
design
, that
is
extant
in
Union
City
. In
1917
, the
church
served
as a
sponsor
and
advocate
for the
construction
of a "
modern
"
school
for
Union
City's
African-American
children
,
later
named
Miles
School
. In the
late
1930s
, the
church
added
a
kitchen
and
classrooms
. These were
finished
circa
1940
. In
1956
, in
reaction
to the
growing
civil
rights
movement
,
national
leadership
of the
CME
church
decided
to
change
its
name
from the
Colored
Methodist
Church
to the
Christian
Methodist
Church
.
Mt
.
Zion
followed
suit
and
retains
that
name
today
.
Collection Name
African American Churches
Subject-LCSH
African American Churches -- Tennessee
Church buildings -- Tennessee
Subject-TGM
Churches
Type
Still image
Genre
Photograph
Extent
1.5
"
x
1
" on
8.5
x
11
in.
negative
composite
Copyright status
Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution
Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use
Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
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