Alexandria’s Shiloh Baptist Church is among more than 30 historically Black churches to receive a new grant aimed at preserving and restoring their buildings.
The church at 1401 Jamieson Avenue has received $360,000 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund as part of its Preserving Black Churches grant program. Recipients were announced last week.
The Rev. Dr. Taft Quincey Heatley, senior pastor at Shiloh Baptist Church, told ALXnow the grant will help address structural issues in the church’s 19th century historic sanctuary…