Places of Worship

Places of Worship. . , Churches fulfilled a critical role in the growth and development of Green Valley. They served as social and spiritual anchors while providing sanctuary for generations of residents., [Captions:] , The Methodists were the first religious denomination to establish a church at Freedman's Village. Little Zion Church, now Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church, first was organized in Freedman's Village in 1866. Ten years later, the congregation moved to Green Valley. In 1922, the parishioners constructed their third church, the present-day Gothic Revival-styled building. The church and the cemetery became a Local Historic District in 1984 and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004., Our Lady Queen of Peace, established in 1945 and dedicated in 1947, the was the first Catholic church for African Americans in Arlington., The congregants of Mount Zion Baptist Church established the second church in Freedman's Village in 1866 and worshipped in a building referred to as the "Old Bell Church." Mount Zion Baptist Church existed in multiple buildings and locations, and was built on its current site in 1945., Macedonia Baptist Church, established in 1911, dedicated its first building in 1927. It was the first Baptist church founded by Green Valley residents. After outgrowing the original location, the congregation built the present church on 22nd Street South in 1971.