Soho Baptist Chapel

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Soho Baptist Chapel
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Soho Baptist Chapel (detail)

Soho Baptist Chapel is a church at 166a Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on the corner with Mercer Street. It was originally a Baptist church, which relocated to North Finchley and is now called High Road Baptist Church. [1] The church is now the Chinese Church in London.

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History

The church was built in 1887–88 to a design by the architect William Gillbee Scott for a Strict Baptist church community that had been formed in 1791. [2] In 1916–17, it was sold to another Strict Baptist church, after their 99-year lease on a chapel in Gower Street came to an end, and became the Gower Street Memorial Chapel. [2] [3] [4]

It is now the Chinese Church in London, Soho Outreach Centre. [5]

References

  1. "History". 5 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 Christopher Stell (2002). Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Eastern England. English Heritage. p. 74. ISBN   978-1-873592-50-2.
  3. "UCL Bloomsbury Project". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  4. "Gospel Tidings Article". gospeltidings.org.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. "Soho | Chinese Church In London". ccil.org.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2016.

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