Cypress Chapel Christian Church
Historical highway marker K-187 · Suffolk
According to tradition, Christian worship near this site began ca. 1750. A Church of England chapel was completed in 1760 but was abandoned following the Revolutionary War. A congregation affiliated with the Christian Church, a denomination organized in 1794 after splitting from the Methodists, moved into the building and became known as Cypress Chapel Christian Church. The first regular session of the Southern Christian Convention, which formed in 1856 after a schism with northern churches, met here in 1858. The Rev. William B. Wellons, a nationally prominent leader in the denomination who had been ordained here in 1846, served as pastor until 1872. The present sanctuary was built in 1925.
Department of Historic Resources, 2025