Churches – Orlando Citizen

St. Lawrence A.M.E. (1881) and Macedonia Missionary Baptist (1882) predate Eatonville’s charter — the first ten acres of the town went to a congregation, and the mayor’s daughter grew up in Macedonia’s pews. The story of the town’s two founding churches.

A historic church at Parramore Avenue in the Holden-Parramore Historic District, Orlando. Photo: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

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November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

Mt. Zion and FAMU Law: The Institutions That Built Parramore

A church organized in 1880 — Orlando’s oldest Black congregation — and a law school the state closed in the 1960s and had to restore in Orlando in 2002. Parramore’s pillars, read together.