It was built about 1871, and is a small, one-story, frame structure with a standard gable-fronted nave form with weatherboard siding, metal roofing, stone foundation piers, a small belfry, and an apse added about 1900.

The cemetery includes multiple grave depressions, fieldstone tombstones, and a number of professionally carved marble monuments.

The church also housed a one-room school for African-American children where Harrisonburg educator Lucy F. Simms had her first teaching post in 1877.

[3] The school at Zenda closed in 1925 and the last services at Longs Chapel were held in the late 1920s.

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