Asbury United Methodist Church (Durham, North Carolina)

The church was established in 1894 as West Durham Methodist Episcopal Church South in West Durham.^[1][2]

The current building, designed by Greensboro architect Harry Barton, was completed in 1926 in the Trinity Heights neighborhood.^[1][2] As part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the congregation was racially segregated and excluded African-Americans until the 1950s.^[1] The congregation was renamed Asbury Methodist Church in 1944.^[2]

In 2021, the church formed the Durham Central Mission Cooperative with three other United Methodist congregations, Iglesia La Aemilla, Six:Eight Church, and Airo Community.^[1]

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