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Historical Highway MarkersMount Sinai Baptist ChurchU-129
In 1868, the formerly enslaved Rev. Israel Cross founded Mount Sinai Baptist Church in a log building here on Benjamin Howell's land. He allegedly never closed a sermon without saying, “Buy some land, build a home, and get some education.” In 1871, the congregation replaced the log church with a wood-frame building, later remodeled in 1908 and 1911. The current Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1921. Carter G. Woodson, author of The Rural Negro (1930 edition), called it “An Unusual Church for the Rural Community.” Annexes were added to the church in 1966 and 2000.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Garnett, William Edward and John Malcus Ellison. “Negro Life in Rural Virginia, 1865-1934.” Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA. Bulletin 295, 1934 Mount Sinai Baptist Chruch. Religious Progress of a People History Of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church 1866-1947. Woodson, Carter G. The Rural Negro: Association for the Study of the Life of Negro History, Inc. 1930. |