The Varick Memorial AME Zion Church is at 255 Anacostia Ave. (Clay St. intersection). This building was designed by African-American architect Charles I. Bryant I (the first). (2004 photo courtesy of the DC Government.)

This cornerstone commemorates that in 1972, the Varick Memorial AME Zion Church moved into an existing 1947 church building at the same location in River Terrace. (2015 photo courtesy of D. Grimstead.)

This cornerstone commemorates that Varick Memorial AME Zion Church’s new building, on the same site as the old building, opened in 1984. (2015 photo courtesy of D. Grimstead.)