Rehoboth Church

Rehoboth Church is the oldest surviving church building in West Virginia, a log cabin-style Methodist structure set in the rural countryside of Monroe County, roughly two miles east of the town of Union. Methodist circuit riders established the congregation during the early American frontier era, and the hand-hewn log construction reflects the spare, functional aesthetic of pioneer settlers who had little access to cut lumber or masonry. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, the building has remained largely unaltered, making it one of the most intact examples of early frontier religious architecture in the Appalachian region. Visitors come for a direct encounter with 18th-century rural Methodism, standing in a quiet field that has changed little since the first congregation gathered here.