Goshen Baptist Church, originally built in 1809, once stood at the crossroads of E. Strasburg Road and West Chester Pike in what is now West Goshen Township. 

Photographed between 1850 and 1874.

During the late eighteenth century, a group of evangelical believers began gathering for worship in a small wood‑framed schoolhouse located at the intersection of the old Strasburg and Philadelphia Roads in Goshen Township. (Goshen would not be divided into East and West Goshen Townships until 1817.)

By 1809, the schoolhouse had been abandoned, and several members of the worshiping community decided to purchase the property and replace the structure with a more permanent building. They raised $1,000 through voluntary contributions to fund the project.

The largest donor agreed to make his contribution on three conditions:

1. The new building would be known as the Baptist Meeting House.
2. Any evangelical denomination could hold services there on Sundays whenever a minister of that denomination was present in the area.
3. Once a sufficient number of Baptists lived nearby to form an organized church, the building and its grounds would become the property of that Baptist congregation.

The other contributors accepted these stipulations, and construction moved forward.