The Octagon Tabernacle

Built in 1898, this building is also known as the Falcon Tabernacle.

Methodist layman J. A. Culbreath built the building to hold prayer meetings. The lumber came from windfall timber. Culbreath used the octagon configuration because he wanted the building to look like a tent. That was because he had been sanctified at a tent meeting. The Fire-Baptized Holiness Association and the Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina met here on January 31, 1911 to form the Present International Pentecostal Holiness Church. The building was moved from its original site of the Culbreah Memorial Church to its present site and restored.