First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation and Gothic Revival church building in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The congregation celebrated its 125th anniversary in November 2006.
The Organizational Meeting for this congregation was held on November 3, 1881, and the first building opened at 104 Street and 99 Avenue a year later. The second structure was completed and dedicated in July 1902 at 103 Street and Jasper Avenue. The present building was completed in November 1912. In September 1978 the building was designated a Provincial Historic Resrouce.
A notable minister was The Rev. David George McQueen, DD, LLD who served for 43 years, starting in 1887 upon graduation from Knox College, University of Toronto, and guided the formation of numerous congregations in the area. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1912 (hosted by First in the second building) and as "Interim Moderator" in 1925, before Ephraim Scott was elected to resume the "Continuing Presbyterian Church". McQueen's predecessor and FPC's founding Minister was Rev. Andrew Browning Baird, DD, who arrived in Edmonton before the arrival of the railway, but left Edmonton for a professorship at Manitoba College (and like his successor, was also PCC Moderator, in 1916). It is said that McQueen was a staunch opponent of Church Union in 1925, and that First Presbyterian Edmonton was the seat of the "rebellion" which saw 1/3 of the Presbyterian Church remain independent of the newly formed United Church of Canada.
Video First Presbyterian Church (Edmonton)
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- First Presbyterian Church of Edmonton
Saint Petka Serbian Orthodox Church (Lakeshore, Ontario)
Saint Petka Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: ????? ????? ?????), built in 1962 as the "Maidstone Central Public School", is located in Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada.
Background
On 11 April 2014, the Greater Essex County School Board sold the school and 8.2-acre lot to the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada. The building now serves as a parish home to a hundred Serbian families in Tecumseh and Lakeshore, Ontario. Most of them arrived after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, beginning in the early 1990s.
The 1962 building was designed and built in Post Modern design by architect John Peter Thomson (1885-1973) who lived in Windsor where he commuted every day to Detroit to work with George D. Mason and the legendary Albert Kahn. It was with Kahn that Thomson was given responsibility for the design of several skyscrapers and assembly plant buildings in the Detroit area. He also took on work under his own name and opened his own firm in Windsor in 1936. His firm still exists today.
Saint Petka Parish is unique for its orientation to landscape, horizontal, clean lines, flat facade, with a main entrance in glass and decorative ceramic tiles. Also, its interior mirror these attributes. The building is of architectural value because it is the best example in the County of Essex of Modern design, popularly known as International style. Following modernist design principles, Thomson's building features open space planning with harmony and balance.
References
- Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/svetapetkalakehore/posts/?ref=page_internal
- https://orthodoxwiki.org/Saint_Petka_Church_(Lakeshore,_Ontario)
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