Mary Jenkins Community Praise House

Mary Jenkins Community Praise House is a historic church located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900, and is a narrow, one-story gable roofed building of frame construction with the entrance in the gable end. It is significant as one of four known extant African-American praise houses on St. Helena Island. The building remains in use.^[2][3]

Mary Jenkins Community Praise House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mary Jenkins Community Praise House, June 2012
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Location	On Secondary Road 74, 2.1 miles north of its junction with U.S. Route 21, near Frogmore, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°25′47″N 80°33′38″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1900 (1900)
MPS	Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS
NRHP reference No.	88001770[1]
Added to NRHP	May 19, 1989

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]