Zionbapt.org
Title
Zion Baptist Church (Philadelphia)
Description
Zion Baptist Church offers a wide range of worship opportunities that everyone can participate in. Listed below is a complete list of services that are held at Zion Baptist Church.
Zion Baptist Church was originally started as a missionary prayer meeting in 1882 by Reverend Horace B. Wayland in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Simms. In 1883, Reverend Wayland was ordained and the prayer meetings moved to a hill at 13th and Popular Streets. The membership grew causing a number of relocations, which finally settled at 13th & Wallace Streets. This last move was an awesome purchase of $16,000 and typically Zion took on the challenge. But even more so, by the time Reverend Wayland passed in 1896, the debt had been reduced to $6000. This was a remarkable feat for this dynamic minister and his congregation.
Reverend Elbert W. Moore was called to the pastorate in 1897 from Denver, Colorado. He encouraged youth to "pursue positive goals through education and stressed Black economic development." Under Reverend Moore, the church secured a charter, installed a new organ and initiated action to acquire properties between Wallace & Melon Street, with the 13th & Melon Streets site purchased first. He retired in 1915 and passed away in Pasadena, California in 1941.
Languages
English
