This frame building is an example of a small, nineteenth-century, rural church in Hanover County. A new church and education building were erected on the site in the 1970s, and all of the fixtures and furniture in the old church were removed to convert the building to a Sunday school building. The property also includes a cemetery.

- Hanover County Online

The History of NBBC

       In 1832, near the location of the present Battlefield Park Elementary School, a building was erected for Baptists and other societies preaching the Gospel and living near the village of Mechanicsville. Part of this group was to become Bethesda Baptist Church in 1841. In 1868 the building burned, and Bethesda Baptist Church met in homes until a building was erected on the present property in 1873. New Bethesda Baptist Church was admitted into the Dover Association on June 20, 1875, with 46 members.
       Between 1919 and 1931, the church was expanded by the addition of a large classroom wing on each side of the building; later in 1950 more classroom space was added at the back of the church building. In 1956 after steady growth, a new sanctuary was built, having Sunday school rooms in the basement. Because the community was still growing, an educational building with a kitchen was built in 1976, located behind the sanctuary and the old building.