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Leonard N. Smith (born October 4, 1961 – February 20, 2022) was the senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, with a congregation exceeding 2,000. [1] Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded in 1866, is the oldest Black congregation in Arlington, Virginia.
The Mount Olivet cemetery adjacent to the church is part of the original land deeded in trust in 1854. On March 12, 1855, John B. Brown and his wife Cornelia, and William Marcy and his wife Ann, resolved an ownership dispute over the church site property by each deeding that property in trust for a Methodist Protestant Church meetinghouse and burial ground.
In 1948, he was elected assistant pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church. He later became the eighth senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, serving from 1952 to 1990. [2] Other Mount Zion Baptist Church pastors have included: [2] Dr. Leonard N. Smith served from 1991 – 2021
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In 1926, Shepard accepted the position of pastor at Mount Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, where he would remain for the rest of his life. [4] The church struggled financially, especially after the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, and several congregation members mortgaged their homes to keep the church afloat. [7]