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Frying Pan Meeting House
2615 Centreville Rd, Herndon,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
38° 56' 23.268948",
-77° 24' 47.805228"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places |
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The Frying Pan Meeting House, constructed by 1791 on land donated by the Carter family in 1783, was used for Baptist services until 1968. Named for nearby Frying Pan Branch, the church is a rare example of 18th-century architecture in western Fairfax County. By 1840 the congregation consisted of 33 whites and 29 blacks; both black and white members are buried in the church cemetery. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces each used the meetinghouse several times as a picket post. The last surviving church trustee conveyed the property to the Fairfax County Park Authority in 1984.
Frying Pan Meeting House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 05, 1991.
| StoppingPoints.com Editorial on Frying Pan Meeting House: | | Frying Pan Springs Meeting House (now also known as “Frying Pan Old School Baptist Church”) was erected circa 1791 on land granted by Robert “Counsellor” Carter to a group of “Old School” Baptists. In addition to local farmers the fundamentalist beliefs of its members also attracted free blacks and slaves to the congregation. From the beginning, blacks were listed as members, baptized in the springs behind the meeting house and interred in the adjacent burial grounds. |
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