'We’ve had 380 in through the doors at St Comgall’s and a great buzz about the place'
Stone faces look out on a world long since transformed from the days they formed the wall of a West Belfast Presbyterian church.
Rev. David Moore of West Kirk Presbyterian Church on the Shankill Road helped create the exhibition which has seen former members of the Albert Street church and over 300 others come to hear a range of talks and presentations on the life of the building and the community it served. “Original documents refer to the church being built simply at a ‘field near Belfast’. The streets and the community came later with streets named after places featured in the Crimean War. Obviously many years later we know the history of inter-communal conflict that occurred as well as urban renewal with homes pulled down and people who moved away.
Rev. Moore used to be a minister in East Belfast and says people from the east of the city used to Glider to visit West Belfast for the first time to take part in the walking tour. He added that the exhibition is “deliberately not static” and it is hoped it will be set up across West Belfast at community centres etc to help people “rediscover” the history of Presbyterianism in that part of the city.
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