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Chattanooga, TN
Asbury Chapel
Union Avenue
Chattanooga
,
TN
Asbury
United
Methodist
Church
was organized and founded as the Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church in 1889. The congregation first met in a lodge hall at the corner of Chamberlain Avenue and Hickory Street, but soon completed a “picturesque” frame structure that was used as the parish worship center until 1909. In that year the congregation completed construction on a much larger, brick gothic building which was dedicated on
July 9, 1911. Five years later the first organ, a Moeller, Opus 2168, was installed in the sanctuary. That organ was replaced by a Pilcher, Opus 1833, in 1937. The next year, following the merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Asbury changed its name to
Asbury
United
Methodist
Church
. As the
Highland Park
neighborhood changed, the Asbury congregation dwindled, shrinking with time to a small remnant. On
July 1, 1984
the church closed its doors and the small congregation united with
Brainerd
United
Methodist
Church
.
Highland Park
Baptist
Church
purchased the church building and renamed it Asbury Chapel.
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