First Presbyterian Church (Shelbyville, Tennessee)
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First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 600 N. Brittain Street in
Shelbyville, Tennessee Shelbyville is a city in and the county seat, seat of government of Bedford County, Tennessee. The town was laid out in 1810 and incorporated in 1819. Shelbyville had a population of 20,335 at the 2010 census. The town is a hub of the Tennessee Wa ...
. The First Presbyterian congregation was established in 1815. It is affiliated with the
Presbyterian Church (USA) The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination, denomination in the Religion in the United States, United States. It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States too. Its th ...
. The church's
Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
building was completed in 1854 and added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1980. It has been described as one of
Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
's finest Greek Revival churches.


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First Presbyterian Church website
Presbyterian churches in Tennessee Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Churches completed in 1854 19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Greek Revival church buildings in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Tennessee Buildings and structures in Shelbyville, Tennessee 1815 establishments in the United States {{Tennessee-Presbyterian-church-stub