Girish Mahajan (Editor)

Methodist Tabernacle (Mathews, Virginia)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Built
  
1922 (1922)

VLR #
  
057-0030

Address
  
Mathews, VA 23109, USA

Area
  
2 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
75002024

Designated VLR
  
April 15, 1975

Opened
  
1922

Added to NRHP
  
21 May 1975

Methodist Tabernacle (Mathews, Virginia)

Location
  
Southeast of Mathews on VA 611 at junction with VA 644, near Mathews, Virginia

Similar
  
Splash Down Waterpark, Forest Hill Park, Water Country USA, Kings Dominion, Go‑Karts Plus

Methodist Tabernacle is a historic Methodist tabernacle located near Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia. It was built in 1922, and is a large, open pavilion with a hipped roof surmounted by a hipped clerestory monitor with wooden shutters. The building has 21 rows of wooden benches on the dirt floor arranged along three aisles. The building is a rare example in Virginia of an early 20th century revival meeting facility.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Methodist Tabernacle (Mathews, Virginia) Wikipedia