1761 |
Trinity Church
(Began as Portsmouth Parish of The Church of England) |
1772 |
Monumental
Methodist Church (Began as The Methodist Episcopal Church) |
1789 |
Court Street
Baptist Church (Began as Portsmouth and Norfolk Baptist Church; became Court
Street, 1855) |
1803 |
St. Paul’s
Catholic Church (From St. Patrick’s/ St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Norfolk) |
1822 |
First
Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth |
1840 |
Grove Baptist
Church (From Sycamore Hill Baptist Church/ Churchland Baptist Church,
located in Norfolk County) |
1848 |
St. John’s
Episcopal Church |
1855 |
River Shore
Baptist Church (Began as Fourth Street Baptist Church, from Court Street
Baptist Church |
1857 |
Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church (From Monumental Methodist Church) |
1865 |
Ebenezer Baptist
Church (Began as First Colored Baptist Church, from Court Street Baptist
Church |
1865 |
Zion Baptist
Church (From Court Street Baptist) |
1883 |
Centenary United
Methodist Church (Began as Craney Island Mission, 1785 then Wesley Chapel,
1848) |
1885 |
The Third
Baptist Church (From Ebenezer Baptist Church) |
1886 |
Gomley Chesed
("Doer of Good Deeds") Synagogue (Began as "Chevra Gomley Chesed" Synagogue) |
1886 |
Mt. Hermon
Temple Baptist Church |
1887 |
New Bethel
Baptist Church (Began as First Baptist Church, Pinners Point) |
1889 |
Western
Branch Baptist Church (Began as mission on Green Street, 1850, then South
Street Baptist Church, 1889, from Court Street Baptist Church) |
1890 |
First Baptist
Church, South Portsmouth (Began as First Baptist Church of Brighton) |
1889 |
First Baptist
Church, West Norfolk (From Grove Baptist Church) |
1892 |
St. Mark United
Methodist Church (Began as Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, South, from
Monumental Methodist Church) |
1892 |
Park View United
Methodist Church |
1893 |
St. James
Episcopal Church (Began as St. James Episcopal Mission, From Grace
Episcopal, Norfolk) |
1894 |
Olive Branch
(From Zion Baptist Church) |
1896 |
Brighton Rock
AME Zion Church |
1897 |
Calvary Baptist
Church (Began as Scott’s Creek Chapel, 1883 then Scottsville Baptist Church,
1889 from Court Street Baptist Church) |
1897 |
Broad Street
United Methodist Church (Began as Port Norfolk and Pinners Point Methodist
Episcopal Church, South) |
1898 |
Port Norfolk
Baptist Church (From Calvary Baptist Church) |
1898 |
Zion Bethel
United Church of Christ |
1899 |
Portsmouth
Seventh-Day Adventist Church |
1899 |
Park View
Baptist Church (from Court Street Baptist Church) |
1901 |
Cottage Place
United Methodist Church (Began as Central Mission, 1899) |
1904 |
St. Thomas
Baptist Church |
1905 |
New Mt. Nebo
Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church (Began as Mt. Nebo RZUA) |
1905 |
The First
Baptist Taylorsville |
1908 |
First
Evangelical Lutheran Church |
1910 |
Twine Memorial
Holy Temple (Began as Union Holiness Church, No. 2) |
1912 |
First Baptist,
Elm Avenue (Began as First Baptist Church, Sherwood Place; From Zion Baptist
Church) |
1913 |
Westhaven
Baptist Church (Began as Rodman Heights Baptist Church, From Calvary Baptist
Church) |
1915 |
Noble Street
Baptist Church (Began as Mission of The Fairsville Community, located in
Norfolk County) |
1916 |
Providence AME
Zion Church |
1919 |
Cradock
Presbyterian Church |
1919 |
Cradock
Methodist Church |
1921 |
Mt. Carmel
Baptist Church (From Zion Baptist Church) |
1922 |
New Mt. Olivet
Baptist Church (Began as Mt. Olivet Baptist Church) |
1933 |
The Church of
The Holy Angels (Began as mission of St. Paul’s Catholic Church at Cradock,
1919) |
1933 |
New Jerusalem
Church of God In Christ |
1935
|
Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church (Began as Fifth Baptist Church then Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church) |
1935 |
New Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church |
1940 |
Portsmouth
Church of Christ |
1942 |
West End United
Methodist Church |
1942 |
The Alliance
Church (The Christian and Missionary Alliance) |
1943 |
Bethany Baptist
Church |
1943 |
Alexander
Baptist Church |
1944 |
Redeemer
Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) |
1945 |
Community United
Methodist Church (Began as outreach ministry of Monumental Methodist Church,
1943) |
1945 |
Grove Park
Baptist Church (Began as The Baptist Tabernacle) |
1952 |
Asbury Methodist
Church (Began as Deep Creek Methodist Chapel) |
1952 |
Biltmore Baptist
Church (Began as The True Gospel Church, 1947) |
1953 |
Temple Sinai
Synagogue |
1956 |
Holy Communion
Evangelical Lutheran Church |
1957 |
Green Acres
Presbyterian Church (From First Presbyterian) |
1958 |
Community
Presbyterian Church |
1958 |
United
Congregational Church, United Church of Christ |
1958 |
Community United
Presbyterian Church |
1959 |
St.
Christopher’s Episcopal Church (Began as a Parochial Mission of Trinity
Church, 1957) |
1962 |
Portsmouth
Christian Church |
1963 |
Calvary
Evangelical Church |
1965 |
Christian
Science Society of Portsmouth (Began as First Church of Christ, Scientist) |
1966 |
St. Andrews
United Methodist Church |
1970 |
Church of The
Resurrection Catholic Church |
1972 |
Temple of Christ
(Began as St. Matthew Church of God and Christ, from Sweet Haven Pentecostal
Church of Carrollton, VA) |
1974 |
New Testament
Church |
1979 |
Church of The
Lord Jesus Christ of The Apostolic Faith |
1982 |
Healing Temple
Church |
1982 |
Churchland
Assembly of God |
1987 |
Faith Fellowship
Community Baptist Church |
1987 |
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial United Methodist Church (Began as union of Elm Avenue UMC
and Wright Memorial Church) |
1992 |
End Times Church
of Deliverance |