With the blessings of members of the “mother church” these members founded the Shiloh Baptist Mission to reach people who were freed or just recently emancipated by the Civil War who resided in the eastern section of Richmond. The record shows that the first worship service took place in the home of Brother John and Sister Charlotte Robinson which at that time was located at 901 North Seventeenth Street. That location is currently a portion of the area of a commercial/industrial site on Oliver W. Hill Way in Richmond’s Shockoe Valley.