* Capital Worship Center will eventually move from its current meeting place at Centre Ridge Elementary to a new building of its own. It's building a sanctuary, related facilities and a preschool on 11.7 acres at Ordway and Compton roads and Route 28 in Centreville.
The church will construct one building in two phases. Phase one is a multipurpose building to seat 500; it will contain a childcare center operating from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. to avoid peak-traffic hours. Phase two is a 10,000-square-foot addition with 400 more seats for 900 seats total.
The entrance and exit will be on Ordway Road.
* Washington Eden Korean Presbyterian Church has also found a home in the local area. It will build a place of worship with a nursery school and child care on 11.3 acres in Centreville. The site is just east of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Road and Route 29.
This project will also be done in two phases. First will come a 450-seat sanctuary with 130 parking spaces and a nursery school for 60 children. The second phase will increase the church seating to 700 total and the parking to about 250 spaces.
The sanctuary will be built at the front of the site, near Cedar Spring Road, and the church will provide a turn lane at the existing median crossover at Cedar Spring. Also planned are right turns in and out of the site's easternmost entrance, and all these transportation improvements are expected to make the intersection of Cedar Spring and Route 29 safer.
* Centreville Presbyterian Church broke ground in April for a new church to be built along Route 29 in Centreville, just west of Pleasant Valley Road. The $5.1 million project entails construction of a 27,715-square-foot building on a 20-acre lot. There'll be a 400- 450-seat sanctuary, 15 classrooms, nursery and childcare facilities, a library and a fellowship hall with a 300-seat capacity. The parking lot will hold 158 vehicles.
* Chantilly Baptist Church has just constructed a new sanctuary. The $1.9 million building is about 13,000 square feet and is to the left of the existing structure, near the intersection of Route 50 west and Route 28 in Chantilly. There's a one-story sanctuary with a two-story education/office building (with 10 classrooms) behind it. The original structure, some 3,500 square feet, will now become the fellowship hall. The new sanctuary holds 290 parishioners and is handicap-accessible. Dedication ceremony is Saturday, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m.
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is expanding its building in Centre Ridge. It's constructing a $292,800 one-story addition to its facility at 14150 Upperridge Drive in Centreville. Part of the Mormon church, the Centreville site is a worship center for three congregations of some 800 members living in the Centreville/Chantilly/Clifton area.
The new addition will be about 3,000 square feet built onto the rear of the building. It will be the administrative nerve center for church education programs serving high-school and college students in eight states — Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio and Washington, D.C. It's also planned to hold workshops, teacher training and administrative conferences.