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Mt. Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church

Kent County · dedicated 2024 · 139 E. North Street, Smyrna

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Built in 1876 by local members of Centennial Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African American congregation to worship in the building, the two-story, three bay frame church with a gabled end would serve as a house of worship until the late 1910s. In 1918, the building was bought and used by St. Johns Masonic Lodge No. 7 until 1935, when it would be purchased by Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church. Organized in 1930 by Reverend Ancle A. Manns, Mount Olive Holiness congregation has worshiped at this location since 1935. In 1980, the church was included in the Smyrna Historic District and added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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