Mennoville Mennonite Church, Religious building in El Reno, Oklahoma, United States.
Mennoville Mennonite Church is a church building from 1894 standing on a 2-acre site near El Reno, Oklahoma. It is a single historic structure rather than a complex, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The building was constructed in 1894 after the first Mennonite congregation in Oklahoma was established, with construction beginning in 1893. This happened shortly after the territory opened for settlement in 1889.
The congregation descended from Mennonites who came from Switzerland, Germany and Russia, and the church keeps that origin visible: the German name Mennoville marks the settlement around El Reno. Services were held in the building until the community outgrew it, and it later passed to the Canadian County Museum Complex.
The site is located near El Reno and is now part of a museum complex where visitors can explore the historic church. Plan enough time to walk around the grounds and view the building architecture up close.
The original congregation started in 1893 with twenty-seven founding members who built the structure. It was the southernmost Mennonite settlement along the historic Chisholm Trail.
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