Eastside Baptist Church

Historic church in Oklahoma, United States

United States historic place


Eastside Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


35°37′33″N 95°57′30″W / 35.62583°N 95.95833°W / 35.62583; -95.95833
Area	less than one acre
Built	1921
MPS	Black Baptist Churches in Okmulgee TR
NRHP reference No.	84000306^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 23, 1984

The Eastside Baptist Church in Okmulgee, Oklahoma is a historic Baptist church located at 219 N. Osage Avenue.

It is home to a congregation established in 1903, as the Zion Bethel Church, which met at a frame residence at the location of the present church.^[2] The church was built in 1921, and was added to the National Register in 1984.^[1]

It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The building was deemed significant as the second-oldest black church building in Okmulgee, and one of the "oldest unaltered black churches in eastern Oklahoma."^[3]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Bryan Brown; George Carney (February 1984). "Excerpt from Thematic Resources document: Eastside Baptist Church". National Park Service. Retrieved February 25, 2022. With accompanying four photos from 1983
^ Bryan Brown; George Carney (February 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Black Baptist Churches in Okmulgee Thematic Resources".