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Eastside Baptist Church | |
| Location | 219 N. Osage Ave., Okmulgee, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 35°37′33″N 95°57′30″W / 35.62583°N 95.95833°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1921 |
| MPS | Black Baptist Churches in Okmulgee TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000306[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 23, 1984 |
The Eastside Baptist Church in Okmulgee, Oklahoma is a historic Baptist church located at 219 N. Osage Avenue.
It is home to a congregation established in 1903, as the Zion Bethel Church, which met at a frame residence at the location of the present church.[2] The church was built in 1921, and was added to the National Register in 1984.[1]
It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The building was deemed significant as the second-oldest black church building in Okmulgee, and one of the "oldest unaltered black churches in eastern Oklahoma."[3][2]