
This is a nice example of the two-steeple [or two-tower] church form widely associated with rural African-American congregations. Though other churches use this form, it has come to symbolize Freedmen churches and other Black congregations.

This has been identified as Mt. Sinai Holiness Church or Mt. Sinai Holiness Church of God. Though it was built circa 1945, the congregation may be older than that date. It was apparently in use as late as the early 2010s but has been abandoned for some time.

Many churches of this type have been modernized in the past 20-30 years and that has often resulted in the loss of their towers. Often, when a newer church is built, these great old buildings are left to the elements. I’ve been documenting them for fifteen years and still look for them everywhere I go.
