“STRONGs” Photo Gallery - 12
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Falls Road Methodist Church Belfast. Photo from front cover of the Church's 75th Anniversary Souvenir.
R.P. Roddie says: In 1850 a new preaching place was opened in the loft of an old bark mill in Greenhills Court, off Falls Road. A Methodist ‘class-meeting’ was formed in it by Mr John Caruth. Mr James H Beattie also commenced a Sunday school, and as a result of these efforts, congregations began to grow which necessitated new premises. The site chosen was opposite some large flour mills in a district, described at the time as ‘one of busy industry rather than aristocratic pretensions’. The mills owned by Messrs Alexander, who granted a plot of ground at a merely nominal rent. The architect was Charles Lanyon, the then County Surveyor. The new building was opened on Sunday 26th March 1854. Source: Rev. Robin Parker Roddie, Honorary Archivist, Wesley Historical Society in Ireland, quoted in the Belfast Forum here. Robert Strong and his family must have attended this church since he lived in adjacent Alexander Street West, his son attended their Sunday School see here, his wife Jane came from a devout Methodist family and they were married in the Donegal Square East Wesleyan Chapel in Belfast in 1862.
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Falls Road Methodist Church Belfast. Photo from front cover of the Church's 75th Anniversary Souvenir.
R.P. Roddie says: In 1850 a new preaching place was opened in the loft of an old bark mill in Greenhills Court, off Falls Road. A Methodist ‘class-meeting’ was formed in it by Mr John Caruth. Mr James H Beattie also commenced a Sunday school, and as a result of these efforts, congregations began to grow which necessitated new premises. The site chosen was opposite some large flour mills in a district, described at the time as ‘one of busy industry rather than aristocratic pretensions’. The mills owned by Messrs Alexander, who granted a plot of ground at a merely nominal rent. The architect was Charles Lanyon, the then County Surveyor. The new building was opened on Sunday 26th March 1854. Source: Rev. Robin Parker Roddie, Honorary Archivist, Wesley Historical Society in Ireland, quoted in the Belfast Forum here. Robert Strong and his family must have attended this church since he lived in adjacent Alexander Street West, his son attended their Sunday School see here, his wife Jane came from a devout Methodist family and they were married in the Donegal Square East Wesleyan Chapel in Belfast in 1862.
Contents of this Website are subject to Copyright © by Philip Strong. See here.
