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New Light Missionary Baptist Church

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Late Gothic Revival

Built
  
1917

NRHP Reference #
  
95001410

New Light Missionary Baptist Church

Location
  
522 Arkansas St., Helena, Arkansas

MPS
  
Ethnic and Racial Minority Settlement of the Arkansas Delta MPS

The New Light Missionary Baptist Church is a historic church at 522 Arkansas Street in Helena, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame brick and masonry structure, built in 1917 for an African-American congregation organized in 1894. Its Gothic Revival design bears some resemblance to Helena's Centennial Baptist Church (a National Historic Landmark), but this building's architect is not known. Its main facade has a single tall gable, with a three-story tower at the southwest corner. A pair of entrances on the first level are topped by three lancet-style windows in the gable, the center one larger than those flanking it. The interior is simply decorated.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

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New Light Missionary Baptist Church Wikipedia