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Fredericksburg United Methodist Church
Description
Our Heritage
Fredericksburg United Methodist Church is located in the heart of historic Fredericksburg, Virginia. Our address is 308 Hanover Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401. The Church has served the local community and surrounding counties for over 200 years.
Methodism in Fredericksburg was formally constituted in April, 1802 as a station in the Baltimore Conference. Its first location was on George Street to the rear of what is today the Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company. After a rocky start, it began to grow in the 1820s when John Kobler, a retired Methodist minister, and his wife, Mary, became members. Inspired by the lay leadership of Kobler, the Church outgrew its small frame building, and in 1842, built a new brick edifice on Hanover Street at the location it occupies today. Much beloved and revered, Kobler's remains were interred under the pulpit after his death in 1843. His wife, Mary, joined him in 1855. In her will she left their home on Hanover Street built by her husband, John, to the Church to be used as a parsonage.
In 1848, the congregation split over the slavery issue and a group left to join the newly formed Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They constructed a new Church at the corner of George and Charles Streets where Fredericksburg Savings and Loan is today. Unlike the brick building on Hanover Street, the Southern Church survived the Civil War unscathed. When the two congregations reunited after the War as part of the MEC, South, they worshipped in the Southern Church until 1882. Needing more room, they tore down the war-damaged 1842 structure and constructed on its site in 1882 a new Gothic church which the congregation still uses today.
Languages
English
Contact
- FredericksburgUnitedMethodist Church
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- Fredericksburg VA
- United States 22401
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- +1.54037390
