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Cane Ridge Meeting House is a historic church building on 
File:Cane Ridge Meeting House Interior.JPG, Interior of the original meeting house at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
File:Cane Ridge Meeting House Memorial Building.JPG, The Memorial building built over the original Cane Ridge Meeting House
File:Cane Ridge Meeting House, Little Rock Road, Paris vicinity (Bourbon County, Kentucky).jpg, Cane Ridge Meeting House in 1934, Little Rock Road, Paris vicinity (Bourbon County, Kentucky)
File:Barton Stone Grave 46.JPG, Grave of Barton Stone
The official website of Cane Ridge
{{Coord, 38.2126389, -84.1191667, format=dms, display=title, type:landmark_region:US-KY Presbyterian churches in Kentucky Churches completed in 1791 18th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Restoration Movement Religious museums in Kentucky Museums in Bourbon County, Kentucky History museums in Kentucky
Cane Ridge Meeting House is a historic church building on Cane Ridge
Cane Ridge was the site, in 1801, of a huge camp meeting that drew thousands of people and had a lasting influence as one of the landmark events of the Second Great Awakening, which took place largely in frontier areas of the United States. Th ...
near Paris, Kentucky
Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky. It lies northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of the Licking River. Paris is the seat of its county and forms part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. As ...
built in 1791. It is one of the oldest church buildings in Kentucky and the largest one room log structure. The church was the site of a large frontier Christian revival in 1801 hosted by the local Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...
congregation that met in the building. Nearly 10,000 people attending. According to the museum " 1804, a small group of Presbyterian ministers from Kentucky and Ohio... penned and signed a document, "The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery", at Cane Ridge that resulted in the birth of a movement seeking unity among Christians along non-sectarian lines. They would call themselves simply "Christians
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words '' Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρ ...
. The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ), the Churches of Christ (non-instrumental), and the Christian Churches
In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus. "Christian Church" has also been used in academia as a synonym for ...
(independent) of the Stone-Campbell movement trace their origins here. This movement is often noted as the first one indigenous to American soil."http://www.caneridge.org/ (viewed September 28, 2010)
In the 1930s a stone building was constructed around the original log structure. The church is still used for worship.
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See also
*List of the oldest churches in the United States
The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving ''building'', and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church ...
* List of the oldest buildings in Kentucky
References
External links
The official website of Cane Ridge
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