Sojourn Heights’s new church campus utilizes the renovation of a historic church building, new facility construction, and landscaping to stitch together a vital nexus for the neighborhood.

The existing building was previously North Main Baptist church. Built in 1940, it had been unoccupied since the early 1990’s. This two-story, load-bearing masonry structure is capped by a beautifully preserved bowstring truss roof structure over a double height worship space. Our design reinforced the masonry structure in this building and modernized the facility while retaining its character and housing a new sanctuary space with mezzanine seating. On the west side of this existing building, a new steel-frame, ground-up addition houses a fellowship hall and staff workspace.

To reconnect with the context, the two buildings will form a U-shape around a common courtyard and greenspace, which Sojourn makes accessible to the community as an amenity for all to share.