Sample Nominations - Areas of Significance - Religion

The church is a single-story, rectangular wood-framed meetinghouse that is five bays long and three bays wide with a tetrastyle portico across the front gable (Photographs 3, 10). The main building is clad in weatherboard siding.
Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery, Georgia

Photograph courtesy of Georgia State Historic Preservation Office

Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery
Georgia, Reference number: 08000967
Area of Significance: Religion, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Period of Significance: 1881-1955

Upper Lott’s Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery is significant as an example of a late-19th century rural church building with elements of the Greek Revival style and as a good example of an early 20th century cemetery landscape. It is also significant in the area of religion as an example of a Primitive Baptist church associated with one of the oldest Primitive Baptist congregations in Georgia.
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Church with steeple on a slight hill
Bethel Methodist Church, Tennessee

Photograph by Lindsay Crockett, courtesy Tennessee State Historic Preservation  Office

Bethel Methodist Church
Tennessee, Reference number: 100002260
Area of Significance: Religion, Social History, Ethnic History: Black
Period of Significance: 1908-1968

Bethel Methodist Church, located in Morristown, Tennessee, is listed for its association with African American heritage. Constructed in 1908 with a significant addition in 1951, the church retains integrity, despite its physical evolution, with respect to location, design, workmanship, feeling, and association. The property is also significant is its association with the "segregated" Methodist organization that lasted from 1939 to the merger in 1966 with the creation of the United Methodists.
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Last updated: November 6, 2022