Mt. Tabor Baptist Church | |
Location | Court and Foster Sts., Lewisburg, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°48′6.5″N80°26′50″W / 37.801806°N 80.44722°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1832 |
Architectural style | Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 76001934 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 12, 1976 |
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, also known as Big Levels Baptist Church, Lewisburg Baptist Church, and Mount Tabor Church, is a historic Baptist church at Court and Foster Streets in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1832, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick meeting house building with Gothic style design elements. It measures 36 feet long by 40 feet wide and sits on a thick limestone foundation. It features a 10 feet by 16 feet frame tower, topped with an octagonal cap and belfry. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
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