St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian church in downtown Windsor, Canada
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is a brick church at Victoria Avenue and Park Street in downtown Windsor, built in 1895 and opened with its first service on June 14, 1896. It was designed to seat 800, and balconies added in 1903 brought capacity to about 1,200. A 1983 addition added the Meeting Place and Herman-Clark Hall.
The current building replaced a church that burned down in 1895, with reconstruction completed in 1896. This was a pivotal moment for the community, which quickly needed to restore its place of gathering.
The congregation has maintained its Scottish Presbyterian roots and today serves both English-speaking and Chinese communities through separate services. This mixed composition reflects the city's changing population over time.
The church stands at the corner of Victoria Avenue and Park Street in downtown Windsor, near the site of the 1883 brick church that burned in 1895. Sunday worship continues at the historic location under The Redeemed Christian Church of God, which also runs a soup kitchen and food bank there. The 1983 addition added the Meeting Place and Herman-Clark Hall.
The congregation's 150th anniversary in 2007 began with the induction of Rev. Ronald Sharpe, only its ninth Senior Minister, who came from a ministry in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In 1980 the church hosted the opening service of the Presbyterian Church in Canada's General Assembly, held jointly in part with the United Presbyterian Church in the USA's assembly in Detroit.
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