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Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church
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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, this two-story, three-bay frame church with a gabled end served 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 was purchased by Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church. Organized in 1930 by Reverend Ancle A. Manns, the 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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