Black Philadelphia 250 Zion Baptist Church

Zion Baptist Church was established as a late 19th-century community of faith. The leading exponent in this ecclesiastical establishment was Rev. Horace Wayland, a black Virginia preacher, no doubt a former slave.

Rev. Wayland established Zion as a missionary prayer meeting in 1882 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 relocation was an awesome purchase of $16,000 and typically Zion took on the challenge. By the time of Reverend Wayland’s homegoing in 1896, the debt had been reduced to $6000. This was a remarkable feat for this dynamic minister and his progressive congregation.

Zion Baptist Church
3600 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140

Posters 11″ x 17″, 13″ x 19″ and 8.5″ x 11″
Greeting cards folded w/envelopes