Church of Christ (Holiness) USA

Charles Price Jones arrived at Mount Helm Baptist Church in 1895 as a Baptist pastor and became the founder of a denomination. Born in Georgia in 1865, he published a holiness newspaper, Truth, from 1896 and wrote hymns, among them "Deeper, Deeper." By 1906 his Christ Temple in Jackson had eight hundred members, a printing shop, a school and a girls' dormitory. In 1907 he dismissed Charles Harrison Mason's congregations over Pentecostalism, and his faction took the Church of Christ (Holiness) name in 1915. Jones moved to Los Angeles in 1917.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.4 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.6 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.7 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 2.8 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Mount Helm Baptist Church - Original Site — steps away
• Mt. Helm Baptist Church — steps away
• Greenwood Cemetery — steps away
• Smith Robertson School — 0.3 mi