Soho Baptist Chapel

Soho Baptist Chapel
Soho Baptist Chapel (detail)

Soho Baptist Chapel is a church at 166a Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on the corner with Mercer Street. Originally a Baptist church, it is now the Chinese Church in London.

History

The church was built in 1887–88 to a design by the architect William Gillbee Scott for a strict Baptist church that had been formed in 1791.[1] In 1916–17, it was sold to a church of the same Baptist denomination, after their 99-year lease on a chapel in Gower Street came to an end, and became the Gower Street Memorial Chapel.[1][2][3]

It is now the Chinese Church in London, Soho Outreach Centre.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Christopher Stell (2002). Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Eastern England. English Heritage. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-873592-50-2.
  2. ↑ "UCL Bloomsbury Project". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  3. ↑ "Gospel Tidings Article.". gospeltidings.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  4. ↑ "Soho | Chinese Church In London". ccil.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-09.

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Coordinates: 51°30′51″N 0°07′39″W / 51.51423°N 0.12752°W / 51.51423; -0.12752

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