CHURCH HISTORIES    Terrebonne Parish, LA 

BAPTIST - NEW MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
 
Submitted by: Cynthia Daigle
 
Source:  The Houma Daily Courier and The Terrebonne Press, Houma, LA. 

Last modified: 10 MARCH 2008
 
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BAPTIST - NEW MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH

Location in 2007 - 922 Goode Street, Houma, LA

The Houma Daily Courier and The Terrebonne Press
Houma, LA, Oct. 8, 1972, Sunday, Section E

NEW MT. ZION SERVES CITY AREA (picture of church in paper)

	THE New Mount Zion Baptist Church, located on Goode St. was organized 
in 1882 by Reverend I.H. Stewart. Reverend F. D. Pollard was elected to 
serve as the first pastor.

In 1908, the membership made plans to build a church. This ultra-modern 
church (for its time) was built under the administration of the Rev. C.S. 
Collins, one of the few early black doctors in Terrebonne Parish.

The church so constructed that it has survived since 1908 until the 
present date without having any major repairs. It has stood many storms 
without being damaged.

According to a local citizen, the Rev. Collins went to Boston and built 
another church which was a replica of New Zion.

The present pastor of New Zion, Reverend I.H. Riley, has announced that in 
the next months, a New Mount Zion will be rebuilt.