Mason Temple

Mason Temple, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a Christian international sanctuary and central headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, the largest African American Pentecostal group in the world.

The building was named for Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, founder of the Church of God in Christ, who is entombed in a marble crypt inside the Temple.

Around that time, Mason attended the Azusa Street Revival where he was taught that he would receive the act of speaking in tongues once baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, and Ralph Abernathy were among the many black leaders who came to Memphis to assist the 1,300 protesting sanitation workers who usually met at the church.

[3] He assigned Riley F. Williams as the chairman of the building commission, Ulysses Ellis Miller as the supervisor of construction, and Henry Taylor as the architect.

The building included a salon, nursery, baggage-check registration room, photographic booth, first aid and emergency ward, and also a post office.