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It's pretty small.
[bsbpyt, 06/25/2016]World's Smallest Church:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- Sconondoa Rd, Oneida, NY
- Directions:
- Cross Island Chapel. I-90 exit 33. West on Rte 365. Turn right on Sconondoa Rd., at the "Town of Vernon" sign. The church is in the middle of a pond to the right of a fork in the road.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
Returning from holidaying at my sister's in Rochester (12/20/98), I stopped off in Oneida, NY, to see the World's Smallest Church. The surprised convenience store clerk knew exactly what I meant and gave me directions. "You'll come to a fork in the road and you'll see a pond. It's in the middle of the pond."
"You mean on an island? Or is it floating?" I asked.
"I don't know. It's in the middle of the pond. You'll see it." he said.
The pond I saw between the forked roads was adorned only by three upright stakes. "Oh no," I thought. "They've taken it in for the winter." I pictured the little building sheltered in someone's garage. I swung the car around for a picture anyway.
As I looked through the viewfinder at the three bare stakes in the middle of the pond I spotted the other pond, on the other side of the road. In the middle of it was a diminutive church sitting on a small platform. Closer inspection revealed a sign on the pond bank, almost as large as the church itself. "World's Smallest Church, Oneida, NY, erected 1989" it proclaimed. The sign noted the building's dimensions and that services were available upon request.
Directions: Exit 33 from Interstate 90. West on 365. Turn right on Sconondoa St., after Sweet's Inn. The church is in the middle of a pond to the right of a fork in the road.
[Christopher Martin, 01/03/1999]See more World's Smallest Churches.
- Coolville, Ohio - Ohio's Smallest Church
I believe this little church may have once stood at Noah's Ark Zoo in Jackson, Ohio. It has been closed since I was a little girl, but it sure resembles the one that I remember!
[Lydia Hall, 01/29/2022]Ohio's Smallest Church:- Address:
- County Road 63, Coolville, OH
- Directions:
- Ohio's Smallest Church is across the street from an Ohio rest stop. It is just off of US Route 50 at the same exit as the U.S. 50 Rest Area, between Athens, Ohio and Belpre, Ohio on county road 63, east of Coolville.
- Admission:
- Donations accepted.
- Coolville, Ohio - Ohio's Smallest Church
This is a very sweet little church and easily accessible from a rest area, but it's not kept up the way it used to be. A warning: watch your step in the sunny garden patches around the sides of the chapel. After snapping a photo of my daughter in front of the little rock garden, I realized that the "fake" copperhead sunning itself there was very real!
[Kitsa, 07/31/2016] This was such a neat find! Right across the street from a rest area.
[teamReames, 10/22/2014]There's nothing more calming for the soul than a tiny church.
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That's a righteous summer algae bloom.