Northcutts Cove Chapel

Northcutts Cove Chapel is the oldest standing meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southeastern United States. Local members, friends, and missionaries constructed and paid for the building, and John Tipton, a Church member in Northcutts Cove, donated the land on which it stands. Charles A. Callis, President of the Southern States Council of the Twelve Apostles, dedicated the chapel on 24 October 1909. When it was completed, Northcutts Cove was headquarters for the Church's East Tennessee Conference, and the chapel became a center for disseminating Latter-day Saint teachings in the state. It was also the site of a three-day debate from 24-26 October 1909 between Charles A. Callis and a Church of Christ minister, and Latter-day Saints regarded unbiased newspaper reports of the debate as a fair representation of the Church as a positive, growing Christian religion. On 18 April, 1979, Northcutts Cove Chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tennessee · United States