page_title: Roe Messner
section_title: Notable churches
hierarchical_section_title: Roe Messner / Notable churches
caption_attribution_description: Dream City Church Phoenix Campus in 2014.
context_page_description: Ronald Roe Messner is an American building contractor who has built more than 1,700 churches, including several megachurches.
  Having divorced his first wife, he married televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1993 after her divorce from husband and PTL Club founder Jim Bakker.
context_section_description: Messner is reported to have been the biggest church builder in the United States.  On August 7, 2007, he told Larry King that he had built 1,784 churches in 47 states. Messner supervised construction of the churches but was not the architect. To date he has designed and/or built over 1,800 churches in all 50 states.
  Calvary Temple (1958) - Denver, Colorado
  Pleasant Valley Methodist (1960) - Wichita, Kansas
  Oak Cliff Assembly of God (1963) - Dallas, Texas
  Evangelical United Brethern (1967) - Marion, Kansas
  World Harvest Church (1983) - Columbus, Ohio
  Dream City Church (1984) - Phoenix, Arizona
  Rockford First Assembly of God (1984) - Rockford, Illinois
  Capitol Christian Center (1984) - Sacramento, California
  Hillside Christian Center (1986) - Napa, California
  Carpenter's Home Church (1986) - Lakeland, Florida
  Church of the Rock (1986) - Rockwall, Texas
  Bethel Church - Los Angeles, California
  Calvary Church (Charlotte) (1988) - Charlotte, North Carolina
  Bellevue Baptist Church (1989) - Memphis, Tennessee
  Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (1989) - Decatur, Georgia
  Cathedral of Praise (1990) - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  Deliverance Church (1990) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Central Community Church (1990) - Wichita, Kansas
  Point Harbor Community Church (2003) - Chesapeake, Virginia
  Redemption (2003) - Greenville, South Carolina
caption: Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona
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