Birmingham Churches and their Cornerstones 119

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City is now located at 221 Roebuck Drive in a building that previously belonged to Roebuck Drive United Methodist Church. The church’s website has extensive resources on its history. There one learns that while the stones shown below date its beginning to 1878 the church now looks to 1869 as its starting date. It was formed by persons who had been freed from slavery and left Ruhama Baptist Church. Jackson Street Baptist Church in Woodlawn traces its origins to this same event

Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.

Map of Posts in this Project

The color and shape of the location markers indicate the character of the cornerstones at each site. Stones like these, with scripture verses and at most one person’s name are olive. Since there are multiple stones the marker contains a square. Click here for full information on the markers.