| Longs Chapel | |
| Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
| Designated Other1 Date: | September 6, 2006[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 082-5264 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Coordinates: | 38.5125°N -78.7622°W |
| Builder: | Jacob Long, T.J. Orndorff |
| Added: | November 15, 2006 |
| Refnum: | 06001042 |
Longs Chapel, also known as Old Athens Church and Athens Colored School, is a historic Church of the United Brethren in Christ church and cemetery located at Zenda near Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1871, and is a small, one-story, frame structure with a standard gable-fronted nave form with weatherboard siding, metal roofing, stone foundation piers, a small belfry, and an apse added about 1900. It measures approximately 20 feet by 30 feet. The cemetery includes multiple grave depressions, fieldstone tombstones, and a number of professionally carved marble monuments. The church also housed a one-room school for African-American children where Harrisonburg educator Lucy F. Simms had her first teaching post in 1877.[2] The school at Zenda closed in 1925 and the last services at Longs Chapel were held in the late 1920s. The building was subsequently used as a hay barn. The last burial was in 1935.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.