• Comfortable padded pew seating in the Sanctuary for nearly 3,600 including handicapped seating
  
• Choir Loft
  
• Allen Organ and Steinway Grand Piano
  
• Wedding Chapel that seats approximately 175
  
• Baptismal Pool
  
• Closed-circuit TV in overflow rooms
  
• Reception Room with Kitchen
  
• User preparation and assembly areas with back stage loading dock
  
• Administration Facilities
  
• On-site Security
  
• Ample parking for buses and cars
  

One of the objectives of this facility is to provide a place where believers from various church backgrounds and denominations come together and worship. The Hylton Memorial Chapel has no formal association with any one denomination or movement, but is provided for all faiths that proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord. We believe God's Spirit has directed the construction and operation of this facility for His Glory. We hope that you will find that Hylton Memorial Chapel is the place for your next conference, concert, meeting, church service or seminar.

Hylton Memorial Chapel accommodates only events of Christian, community, or charitable nature. We reserve the right to refuse to accommodate any group whose events will violate HMC's charter or the instructions of the HMC Board of Directors or whose doctrinal position deviates from orthodox Christian tradition.

 Biography: Cecil D. Hylton

"Offer the world nothing less than your best efforts". Cecil Hylton's class creed demonstrated a philosophy that he endeavored to live by throughout his life. The valedictorian of his class, his teachers noted that he was "brilliant, artistic and talented, and last but not least, very popular among us". Born in rural Floyd County, Virginia, the son of a staunch Primitive Baptist, Cecil was the third of six children. The family later relocated to Centreville, Va., where Cecil helped manage the family farm.

After working the family farm and helping to distribute fresh produce and farm goods, Hylton soon made his way into the sod business. This venture proved successful and he soon owned a fleet of trucks and employed dozens of workers. Always a simple and unassuming man, Hylton was once overlooked at a truck dealership because of his soiled clothes having worked in the sod, alongside his crew. He left to visit a neighboring dealership and paid cash for the six new trucks to be used in his business.

During the postwar housing boom, Hylton seized the opportunity to enter the housing industry and became even more successful. Tapping into the vast market of first-time home-buyers, he became one of the foremost builders in the Washington, D.C. area. His lifelong dream was realized in the formation of Dale City, a planned community 30 years in the making. Hylton built over 20,000 homes in his career, in addition to apartments, shopping centers, and office buildings. Although not intending to be distracted from his housing business, he often found himself initiating new ventures to accommodate the growth in his communities. Such was the case with his beginning of Dale Service and Cable Television, Inc.

Cecil Hylton was always a modest person, never comfortable in the notoriety which accompanied his success. Although He had accomplished a great deal and attained a considerable measure of success, Hylton always lived a simple, no-frills lifestyle. His primary mode of transportation was a pickup truck. His many lifelong employees attest to the fact that his success never altered his down-to-earth personality.

Having enjoyed attending revival meetings and gospel crusades during his lifetime, and being a long-time benefactor of projects perpetuating the Gospel, Mr. Hylton has been memorialized through the construction of the Chapel which bears his name. Initiated by Irene, his wife of nearly fifty years, the completion of the Cecil D. Hylton Memorial Chapel is the realization of yet another dream, arguably their most significant work thus far.

 Our Statement of Faith

• We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired, infallible Word of God, both the Old and New Testaments, and to be the standard for conduct as well as the authoritative rule of faith.
  
• There is one true God, the eternally self-existent "I AM", creator of heaven and earth, and redeemer of mankind. He has revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
• Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who was born to a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed a substitutionary work of the cross on behalf of all mankind, was resurrected from the dead, and later exalted to the right hand of God the Father.
  
• Man, created good and upright, by voluntary transgression fell and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God.
  
• Man's only hope of redemption is through the atonement of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
• The Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of the Holy Spirit, and principle means whereby the Great Commission is fulfilled. Every believer should be an integral part of a local fellowship whereby his or her gifts can be utilized in the work of the ministry.