The Mount Olive church is one of the oldest African American Churches in South Florida.  With a storied past dating to its humble beginnings on November 25, 1918, the campus today contains a structure which is included in the National Register of Historic Places, along with the current 4 story worship facility built in 1979, and boasting a membership of over 10,000 congregants. The winning design concept includes a new Worship Sanctuary with over 1950 seats, a bookstore, café area, Sunday School classrooms, choir facilities, administrative and pastoral offices, a 200 seat chapel and parking facilities, proposed to be built as Phase I of a two phase building program, adding approximately 40,000 sft. to the existing facilities in a seamless architectural expression that unifies the entire campus.  The proposed design includes a number of abstracted symbolic elements associated with “church architecture” without the “literal” expressions of a more conventional solution. For example, the Traditional “Steeple” is reinterpreted through the introduction of a searchlight.