African Zion Baptist Church

African Zion Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
African Zion Baptist Church, September 1979
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Location	4104 Malden Dr., Malden, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°17′58″N 81°33′26″W / 38.29944°N 81.55722°W / 38.29944; -81.55722Coordinates: 38°17′58″N 81°33′26″W / 38.29944°N 81.55722°W / 38.29944; -81.55722
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1872
NRHP Reference #	74002010
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1974

African Zion Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 4104 Malden Drive in Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It is a one-story frame structure built atop a stone foundation. It has a gable roof topped by a wooden bell tower. This is considered the mother church of African-American Baptists in West Virginia, many of whom migrated there after the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Among its noted members were "Father" Lewis Rice, founder of the church and a leader of the early African-American community in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia, and Booker T. Washington.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.