Mt Sinai Baptist Church

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With the founding of “Mount Sinai Baptist Church”, we became Bethel’s second daughter church. Bethel members provided the land. The leadership assisted their African-American members in forming their own independent place of worship in the difficult days of Reconstruction following the Civil War. The present building was built in 1884 and was designed by the Watkins Nursery Family and built by Carpenter John Wooldridge of Powhatan County. The building is described as having a flat roof, wood floors, lights on the walls, two stoves for heating, burning wood and coal. There was one stove on the left side and one stove on the right side of the church. There was no back door and water was put in pails for drinking and there was an outdoor lavatory. There was also three rows of pews and two aisles. The building had two front entrances with steps in front of each entrance for going up and coming down. The building sat on pillars.\