Page 21 ) The Centenary Church, 1839. |
Some fifty-five years after the formation of the first Methodist church in Saint John , the congregation, having grown too big for one church, divided in two. The Centenary Church was built in 1839 by those who left; it was so named because 1839 was the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Methodism by John Wesley. |
| The Queen Square Church, a stonework building of Gothic design, was dedicated in 1879. Sixty years later almost to the day, the Centenary and Queen Square congregations united, with the new larger congregation moving to the newly christened Centenary-Queen Square church. | ) The Centenary/Queen Square |
) Interior, Centenary-Queen Square Church |
In April 1957, the congregation of the Carmarthen Street United Church
accepted a resolution of their official board requesting the Centenary-Queen
Square Church take over the pastoral charge of their church, and the churches
were united (and United) in June of 1957. In 1999, the shrinking congregation sold this massive structure and relocated to smaller quarters. It is now known as the Gothic Arches... |
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