Built 1896 (1896)-1897, 1916 VLR # 122-0110 Area 4,000 m² Added to NRHP 4 April 2007 | NRHP Reference # 07000274 Designated VLR December 6, 2006 Architectural style Romanesque architecture | |
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Location 2729 Bowden's Ferry Rd., Norfolk, Virginia Similar Virginia Zoological Park, Town Point Park, Naval Station Norfolk, Attucks Theatre, Harrison Opera House | ||
Zion Methodist Church, now known as Norfolk United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was built in 1896-1897, and is a modest one-story brick church topped by a side-gable roof in the Romanesque Revival style. The front façade is three-bays wide, and dominated by a projecting bay flanked by towers of differing heights. The annex was added in 1916 and is accessed by three overhead roll-up doors and consists of an open mezzanine with offices, offices and meeting spaces below, and serves for additional sanctuary space. Zion Methodist Church was founded in 1793, and is one of the first Methodist churches founded in Norfolk, Virginia.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.