Monumental United Methodist Church

The members of Monumental have hung together as a congregation since before the American Revolution. During those years, the Monumental family has survived such known crowd thinners as wars, pestilences and famines. Just the year before, 1831, Monumentallers began to build a new church on Dinwiddie Street at approximately the present site of the church. This church would become known as the Dinwiddie Street Methodist Church. Unfortunately, in 1864 the church burned to the ground as a result of a defective flue. The only relic of the church left from the fire was the pulpit Bible, which was rescued by member Robert G. Cathedral, who dashed in and out of the burning building to get it. By 1866 Monumentallers had built a chapel on Queen Street at the approximate site of the present-day church’s Fellowship Hall. That chapel operated as the church until the present Monumental United Methodist Church was finished in 1876 and then the former chapel became the Sunday school building. By the 1950s, the Sunday school building was no longer serving the needs of the congregation despite a few additions and it was knocked down and replaced with the present Fellowship Hall.nMonumental United Methodist Church was built in 1831, but it actually dates back to 1772 when Rev. Robert Williams, a Methodist minister and missionary preached here making it the oldest continuing Methodist congregation in the South and the third oldest in the nation. One of its most notable members was John Porter, the designer and builder of the CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack).  It is a five-bay brick and stucco Victorian Gothic style church  featuring a 182 foot tall, two part central tower. It is listed on the National Register of HistorynWhen the steeple atop Monumental United Methodist Church on Portsmouth's Dinwiddie Street caught fire on Jan. 3, 2018, the blaze was visible from miles away. On Dec 01 2019 the church held a rededicating service.nWhich was attended by many civic people. Assume this is a historical building and history of a church

Very friendly welcoming congregation. Traditional worship service.

They hosted a fall recycling event and allowed anyone from the neighborhood to recycle electronics, waste oil, and used batteries, among other things, for free. It was well run and painless to dropoff my stuff.

I have went there many times like the service

I love this church