Mount Zion AME Church, Jacksonville

The Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is another historic place of worship situated on East Beaver Street. The origins of this religious denomination date back to the end of the Civil War, when a group of Freedmen established a spiritual society, which in 1866 officially became known as Mount Zion AME Church. Throughout the years the building has been enlarged several times and in 1901 it suffered the same fate as numerous buildings in the city caused by The Great Fire of Jacksonville. The new large church was built here in 1905 in Romanesque architectural style featuring large decorated arched windows, a bell tower and contrasting brick quoins.