Bethel Church (also known as New Bethel Church or Bethel Methodist Church) is a historic

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...

church located on Missouri Highway T near Labadie, Missouri. The church was built in 1868 to replace a log building constructed in 1840 for Franklin County's first Methodist congregation. The red brick building has an unornamented

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design. The building has a Greek temple form with a low

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and square brick

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s flanking the door and separating the large side windows. The interior of the church has a high ceiling, a balcony above the

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, and white-painted features. The church was added to the

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in 1993.

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Methodist churches in Missouri Greek Revival church buildings in Missouri Churches completed in 1868 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Buildings and structures in Franklin County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Missouri 1868 establishments in Missouri {{Missouri-church-stub