Faith Chapel 
14 S. Potomac Street
This heavily ornamented Baroque movie theater was built in 1914 as the Colonial Theater.  The original interior and storefront were remodeled after a 1940's fire.  The theater was purchased by the Faith Chapel, an independent church, in 1976.


Trinity Bible Church 
100 E. Antietam Street
This small church was built in 1871 by the St. Matthews German Lutheran Church, an offshoot of the German Lutheran Congregation (R) preferring to have services conducted in German.  The congregation dissolved in 1917 and the church was purchased by the Otterbein United Brethren Church of Hagerstown.  At some point, the red brick church was covered with a formstone veneer.  The church was purchased by Trinity Bible Church, an affiliate of the Pentecostal Church of God, in 1977.


First Brethren Church
100 S. Mulberry Street
The First Brethren Church was formed as a branch of the Church of the Brethren (D) in 1894.  In 1914, when the Brethren decided to build a new church, the 1894 church was sold and moved to Smithsburg.  The present late Gothic Revival style church was dedicated in 1915.


Church of the Brethren
15 S. Mulberry Street
The Brethren religion began in Schwarzemau, Germany, c. 1708, and came to America 10-20 years later.  The first public worship service of the Brethren in Hagerstown took place in the Junior Fire Company Hall in 1883.  The Brethren built their first meetinghouse on E. Washington Street in 1884.  A second congregation was formed, the First Brethren Church (C), in 1894.   The Church of the Brethren built the existing church across the street from their old meetinghouse in 1897.


Otterbein United Methodist Church 
108 E. Franklin Street
This High Victorian Gothic/Romanesque style church was built in 1898. This congregation grew from Geeting's Society of United Christians and Otterbein's United Brethren in Christ in 1770.  Their first church was built at 138 W. Washington Street in 1805.  During the 19th century, the Church moved to its present site, built three successive church buildings, formed a relationship with Asbury's Methodist Church in America (F), and became known as St. Paul United Brethren in Christ.  Following a merger with the Evangelicals and the Methodists, St. Paul's became known as Otterbein United Methodist Church in 1969.


John Wesley United Methodist Church 
129 N. Potomac Street
Methodism came to Hagerstown with the preachings of Francis Asbury in the late 18th century.  After years of sharing space with the United Brethren (E), the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church congregation built their first church on N. Jonathan Street in 1825.  The present Gothic style church was built in 1885.  The towers were completed in 1922.  Following a merger with the Evangelical United Brethren, St. Paul's became known as John Wesley United Methodist Church in 1969.


Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church 
210 N. Potomac Street
Inspired by Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli, the Reformed Church was founded by John Calvin during the German Reformation in the 16th century.  The German Reformed Church came to Hagerstown in 1770 and built its original church on this site in 1774.  In the mid-19th century, the congregation divided over the issue of conducting services in German.  The original church came to be known as the Zion Reformed Church and a new German speaking church formed as Christ's Reformed Church (K).  The 1774 church was rebuilt with Romanesque detailing in 1867 and enlarged in 1893.  Following a merger with the Evangelical Synod and the Congregational Christian Churches, the Zion Reformed Church became known as the United Church of Christ in 1957.


Trinity Lutheran Church   235 N. Potomac Street
A dispute over plans to renovate St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (R) caused the congregation to splinter and led to the formation of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1869. Trinity's first church was located on west Franklin Street on the present site of Chevy Chase Bank. The church council began construction of the present English Gothic style church in 1909.


Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church
26 W. Bethel Street
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest black denominational church in America, was founded by Richard Allen in 1817.  Dissatisfied with the influence of the white Methodist Church on Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church (J), Thomas E.W. Henry formed the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1838.  The first church of the new congregation was built in 1838 across the street from the present site.  A new brick church was constructed on the present site to house the growing congregation in 1840.  In 1910, the church was demolished to make way for the present imitation stone church. 


Asbury United Methodist Church
155 N. Jonathan Street
Founded under the supervision of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (F) in 1818, the Asbury congregation is the oldest black church in Hagerstown.  The Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church congregation built their first church on the present site in 1864.  The church was rebuilt in 1879 and gutted by fire in 1973.  This church bears a strong resemblance to the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church's 1840 church. 


Christ's Reformed Church (United Church of Christ)
130 W. Franklin Street
In the mid-19th century, the German Reformed Church (G) split over the issue of conducting services in German and Christ's Reformed Church was formed as a new German speaking church.  The new group built their first church on the present site of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Fire Company.  Ground was broken for a new church on the present site in 1894.  The church was expanded in 1937 and received its present modern facade in 1969.


St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
218 W. Washington Street
Father James Frombach came to the region in 1758 to offer Mass to the local Catholic population and stayed to become the first pastor of St. Mary's Catholic congregation in Hagerstown.  St. Mary's built their first church in 1790, replaced it in 1794, and laid the cornerstone for the present brick church in 1826.  The church was extensively renovated in the 1870's with the addition of the vestibule and tower and the Romanesque detailing.


Presbyterian Church of Hagerstown
20 S. Prospect Street
Presbyterians from the region held their services in the German Reformed Church (G) prior to the organization of a local church in 1809.  Hagerstown's first Presbyterian Church (Q) was built on S. Potomac Street in c.1815-17.  The present limestone Gothic Revival style church was built in 1873-75. 


St. John's Episcopal Church
101 S. Prospect Street
The Episcopal Church, originally a part of the Church of England, was the first church to be founded in the American Colonies.  The Sacraments were first brought to the Hagerstown region in 1744.  First located south of town, the St. John's parish church was moved to Hagerstown in 1763 or 1770.  A new, larger church was built on the present site of the Dagmar Hotel in 1817.  The present Gothic Revival church was built in 1872.


Hagerstown Bible Church 
213 Summit Avenue
This Gothic Revival style church was built in 1928.  This congregation was established in Hagerstown by Rev. F.H. Snavely in 1925.  In 1981, Grace Academy (located at the old Broadway School) became a ministry of the church.


Congregation B'nai Abraham
53 E. Baltimore Street
Jewish settlement in the American colonies began in 1654, reaching Western Maryland in 1762. From 1840-75, Hagerstown's Jewish community held services in the Presbyterian Church (Q). In 1892, the Synagogue of the Sons of Abraham at Hagerstown was founded and a traditional red brick synagogue was built on this site in 1895. In 1921, the Talmud Torah building was built next to the synagogue. In 1923, the congregation demolished the original synagogue and built the present yellow brick synagogue.


Fundamental Baptist Church, Inc.
146 S. Potomac Street
Over the past 180 years, this church building has housed four different congregations.  The rear four bays are the remnant of the two-story, three-bay gable-fronted building constructed in c.1815-17 as the original Presbyterian Church of Hagerstown.  In 1876, the Presbyterians vacated the church and sold the property to the newly formed First Christian Church.  The First Christians extensively remodeled the interior of the church in 1879, completely transformed the original church in 1896 with the placement of a 25-foot-deep Romanesque style addition on the front of the building, and added the Bible School in 1915.  The First Christians moved to new facilities on Potomac Avenue in 1961 and the church was sold to the Hagerstown Independent Church.  In 1995, the property was purchased by the Fundamental Baptist Church.


St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
141 S. Potomac Street
The Lutheran Church was founded by Martin Luther during the German Reformation in the 16th century.  Lutheranism came to Hagerstown in the mid-18th century with the formation of the St. John's congregation in 1770.  The congregation replaced their original loghouse church with the present brick Georgian-style meetinghouse in 1795.  Dissension over plans to remodel the church in 1867 led to the splintering of the congregation and the formation of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (H) in 1869.  The church was remodeled in 1870 and again in the 1890's, 1900, 1910, 1970.