Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration | |
Coordinates: | 44.6244°N -93.7631°W |
Built: | 1869 |
Architecture: | Stick/Eastlake (Carpenter Gothic style) |
Added: | April 17, 1980 |
Mpsub: | Scott County MRA |
Refnum: | 80002159 |
The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, an Episcopal church building in Belle Plaine, Minnesota is a Carpenter Gothic style building with wooden buttresses. Sometimes referred to as a "prairie Gothic" church, it was built in 1868[1] for English-speaking parishioners, but most of the rural residents at the time were German and Irish immigrants who brought their own languages and religious practices with them. The result was a church building that struggled to attract worshipers for 80 years before it was abandoned.[2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]