How a 122-Year-Old Black Church Is Being Used to Dismantle the Communities It Was Built to Protect - The House of God Church and Its Historical Significance The House of God Church, formally known as The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Without Controversy, Keith Dominion, is one of the most historically significant Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. Founded in 1903 by Mother Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the church was revolutiona