Jerusalem Baptist Church

The Jerusalem Baptist congregation of Fairfax Station formed on May 17, 1840. Charter members worshiped every third Sunday at the Upper Church (Payne's Church), an original colonial Anglican church, which was located south of the courthouse on Ox Road. During the Civil War, Confederates used the church building as a hospital. Later Union troops dismantled the church and used the bricks to build chimneys for their winter quarters. This white frame church opened on Ox Road in January 1867, and its membership of blacks and whites remained steady through the years. Baptisms were held in local streams or ponds.

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Memories: Ilryong Moon, Esq.

Ilryong Moon is an at-large representative on the Fairfax County School Board; previously he represented Braddock District on the Board. Mr. Moon is the only Korean-American elected to public office in this area. He talks about the experience of the Asian immigrant community in Fairfax County.

Korean Businesses, Annandale

Newcomers to the United States have propelled diversity and the commercial and residential growth of the Braddock District. By 1999, the Korean population in Annandale had expanded to include 27 restaurants, 19 churches, 16 beauty salons, 10 weekly newspapers, nine acupuncturists, eight women's clothing shops, and two bridal shops, according to an article in the Washington Post on May 16, 1999.

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Oral History: Helen Winter

Helen Winter moved to Annandale in 1969. She comments on the positive effects of immigration on the growth of the community and the development of community spirit over the years. Helen Winter became active in the local civic association and the planning commission. She discusses volunteerism and Annandale revitalization.

Little Zion Baptist Church

In 1891, the Little Zion Baptist Church was built for $25 by freed slaves on land donated by Jack Pearson, a former slave of the Fitzhugh family.

The founding congregation was known as the Old School Baptist Group of Blacks and Whites. Reverend Lewis Henry Bailey, a former slave, was their first hired minister. Reverend Bailey was sold from a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia to a Texas slave master, freed at the age of 21, and returned to Alexandria where he found his mother. Bailey learned to read and attended seminary with the help of a philanthropist in touch with the American Baptist Publishing Society. Lewis mortgaged his home for $25.00 to finance the new church. Today, in 2007, a Korean Presbyterian congretation meets in the original church building on Burke Lake Road.

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Jerusalem Baptist Church

The Jerusalem Baptist congregation of Fairfax Station formed on May 17, 1840. Charter members worshiped every third Sunday at the Upper Church (Payne's Church), an original colonial Anglican church, which was located south of the courthouse on Ox Road. During the Civil War, Confederates used the church building as a hospital. Later Union troops dismantled the church and used the bricks to build chimneys for their winter quarters. This white frame church opened on Ox Road in January 1867, and its membership of blacks and whites remained steady through the years. Baptisms were held in local streams or ponds. Currently, in 2007, the Evangelical Union Korean Church of Washington meets in the original white frame structure.

Photo by Gilbert Donahue

Copyrighted material, not to be reproduced without permission of owner, Gilbert Donahue