Palmyra is a village in Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 3,536 at the 2010 census. The village, along with the town, is named after Palmyra in present-day Syria.
The Mount Zion AME Church is a historic church in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is located at 201 East Beaver Street. On December 30, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The "AME" is an abbreviation of African Methodist Episcopal, the religious denomination.
Zion Church is a historic Episcopal church building located in Rome, Oneida County, New York. The church was designed by noted national church architect, Richard Upjohn, (1802-1878), built in 1850. It is a three-by-four-bay structure built of bluestone in the Gothic Revival style. Located adjacent is the stone "Clarke Memorial Hall" designed by local designer Frederick Hubbard and built a quarter-century later in 1884–1885.
Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, formerly known as St. Luke's A.M.E. Zion Church until the late 1950s, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a brick church constructed in 1920. It is the oldest surviving church associated with the Buffalo A.M.E. Zion congregations.
Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, now the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at 69 Wall Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It is a large Gothic Revival style brick and limestone structure built in 1788, and renovated in the 1887. The facade is dominated by a square tower topped by a broach spire. It is an example of an auditorium plan church, popular in church design from the 1880s to 1920s.
St. James AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. It is a two-story, frame church structure set on a high foundation and featuring a four-story entrance tower. The church structure was begun in the 1830s and modified many times since. The original stone meetinghouse was built in 1836 and is believed to be Ithaca's oldest church and one of the oldest in the AME Zion system.
Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church located at Smith and Cottage Streets in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It is the oldest predominantly African-American church in Dutchess County, NY. The church was a part of The Underground Railroad led by Civil Rights leader Harriet Tubman. The first black female judge in America, Ms. Jane Bolin, was a member of this church, along with other influential people. The church has experienced phenomenal new growth under the leadership of their Pastor, Reverend Edwrin Sutton. The Church as a ministry began in 1836. The church building was built between 1908 and 1910, with the parsonage added in 1914. The one-story, rectangular Gothic Revival church has an attached two-story bell tower topped by a pyramidal roof and a raised basement. The brick building features pointed arched openings and stained glass windows.
Thomas Memorial AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at Watertown in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1909 and is a small front gabled vernacular building with minimal Gothic details. It is constructed of cast concrete blocks and features a plain square tower with no spire. Its also a place where the run away slaves would use as a hub for the under ground railroad, along with several houses on the street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Colton in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church was built in 1883 of red Potsdam Sandstone. It is a gable front building, approximately 48 feet (15 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) deep and features an 85-foot-tall (26 m), 14+1⁄2-foot-square (4.4 m) tower. The rectory was built about 1900 and is a two-story, clapboard-sided Italianate building on a sandstone foundation. It is now used as the Colton Town Museum. Also on the property is a cast-iron urn a cast-iron lamppost dating to the 1880s.
Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery is a national historic district comprising a historic Episcopal church complex and cemetery located at Morris in Otsego County, New York. The complex consists of the church, rectory (1893), and parish house (1901). The church was built in 1818 and is a stone building in the early English Gothic Revival style. It features a steeply sloping gable roof and a central projecting bell tower with a belfry with a balustrade. The Harmony Cemetery has burials dating from about 1800 to 1937.
The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church at 2051 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. This High Victorian Gothic structure was built in 1873-74 for an Episcopal congregation, and has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest African-American congregation, which was established in 1833. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic church at 172 Garwin Road in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is an historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at 2704 24th Rd. South in Arlington, Virginia. It was built in 1922, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, brick church building on a parged concrete foundation. It features two unequal-sized crenellated towers and brick buttresses along the facade and side elevations in the Late Gothic Revival style. Also on the property are two contributing resources, including a cemetery dating from circa 1894, and a parsonage built in 1951. The cemetery contains approximately 107 interments.
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and cemetery located at Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It was originally built in 1845 and re-built after a fire in 1889. The one-story, gable roofed frame Classical Revival-style church rests on a brick foundation. It measures 28 feet, 3 inches, wide and 36 feet, 2 inches in length. The ground around the church has been used as a cemetery since the church was established. The church is an important focal point of the community of Star Hill, an early community of African American settlement in Kent County. Zion was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in Camden, and is the mother church of nearby Star Hill AME Church.
Zion Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church complex located near Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was built in 1856, and is a vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. Also on the property are a contributing church cemetery, rectory (1884-1885), garage, well house, and fence.
Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, also known as Old Goler, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at 630 Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918–1919, and is a rectangular brick building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gable-front block flanked by two square brick towers and stained glass windows. A two-story annex was built in 1946. In 1942, the Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church congregation split from the Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Douglaston Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Douglaston, Queens, New York. It includes 83 contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings include Zion Episcopal Church (1830), houses and garages, and commercial buildings. The sites are Zion cemetery and public park. It was laid out with very large lots in 1853, at the very beginning of a movement in the United States to create suburban gardens. The buildings include a number of fine examples of late-19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles such as Queen Anne, Shingle Style, and Colonial Revival. The majority of the buildings date between 1890 and 1940.
Palmyra Village Historic District is a national historic district at Palmyra in Wayne County, New York.
Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic structure located in rural Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1868 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
People's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located in Downtown Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. It was designed by architect Charles Erastus Colton and Wallace Rayfield and built in 1911. It is a small Gothic Revival style stuccoed brick building. It sits on a cut limestone foundation and measures approximately 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep. It has a two-story projecting front gable and features a three-story bell tower topped by a pyramidal roof. The congregation was incorporated in 1837 and remained at this location until 1976.
