Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Cemetery, Roanoke

Name: Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Cemetery
Address: Roanoke, United States

#15 among attractions in Roanoke

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Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Cemetery, Roanoke

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Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic African-American Baptist church and cemetery located at Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1908, and is a small, one-story, rectangular frame church sheathed in weatherboard. It consists of a main sanctuary, a front vestibule, and a rear chancel bay. The frame building sits on a raised foundation of uncoursed fieldstones. The associated burial ground contains over 100 interments from the 1870s through the present. ()

Built: 1870 (155 years ago)Coordinates: 37°18'15"N, 79°53'27"W

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Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Berglund Center, Taubman Museum of Art, O. Winston Link Museum, Science Museum of Western Virginia.

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