Old Judy Church, also known as Old Log Church, is a historic
Methodist Episcopal
The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In ...
church
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building located near
Petersburg,
Pendleton County, West Virginia
Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,143, making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created by the V ...
. It was built between 1836 and 1838, and is a rectangular hewn-log building measuring 24 feet wide and 28 feet deep. It was abandoned in 1910, and rededicated in 1936 by the Methodist church. It is used as a community center for social gatherings.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1976.
Gallery
File:OldJudyChurch_interior_2729.jpg, Interior of Old Judy Church south of Petersburg, WV
File:OldJudyChurch_HistoricMarker_2762.jpg, Historic marker - Old Judy Church on Hwy. 220
References
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Methodist churches in West Virginia
Churches completed in 1838
19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
Buildings and structures in Pendleton County, West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, West Virginia
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