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| Description | This humble concrete masonry block building is the former Maize Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, which stands along Old US 19-23 on the northeast side of Sylva, North Carolina. The building was built around 1940 outside of a previous wood-frame church that dated back to about 1900, with the old church being dismantled and removed through the windows following the completion of the new building. The church served a small community of people of sub-Saharan African descent that was once clustered in the area, largely due to the proximity to the tannery and paper mill that provided employment for many community members in the period of segregation and disenfranchisement. Other community existed on Ashe Settlement (now Old Settlement) Road, on the Tuckaseigee River downstream of Webster, and along Old North Carolina Highway 107 in Cullowhee, with Robertson Dormitory at Western Carolina University being built on the former site of a school and church that served the small community there. Following the end of segregation and Jim Crow laws in the mid-1960s, the communities of those of sub-Saharan African descent in the area began to disintegrate and merge into the wider community, and many churches, including Riverview Baptist Church, the Webster (African) Baptist Church, and Maize Chapel closed, their reason for being no longer existing, as local church congregations opened up to people from different ethnic backgrounds, whom began attending services at other churches, leading to many former houses of worship closing, with the two churches in Webster becoming abandoned and falling into ruin. Today, only this church, the nearby Liberty Baptist Church, and the Mount Zion AME Church in Cullowhee remaining in operation. Today, the former Maize Chapel AME Church is home to God’s Holy Tabernacle Ministry, a new congregation that still serves the same community, but has a bit of a wider scope than the previous church and belongs to a completely different denomination. |
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| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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