The Apostolic Church, Great Victoria Street, Belfast was the first to be established in Ireland in 1920. It was located in a listed building, which had been the first Jewish Synagogue in Ireland.
Click here to read the history of the Apostolic Church.
The Public Records Office holds the records of the Congregational Union of Ireland which comprise eleven volumes and a small number of miscellaneous documents, dated 1829-1993. The archive overlaps with the records of the Irish Evangelical Society (CR/7/2).
The Elim Pentecostal Church had its beginnings in the town of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan and grew indirectly out of the Welsh Revival at the start of the twentieth century.
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Ireland was formed in 1927/8 following a secession from the Irish Presbyterian Church because of the false teaching which was allowed to go undisciplined in its College.
The Evangelical Protestant Society (EPS) was founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1946 at a time when liberalism and false ecumenism were making ever increasing inroads into the Protestant churches.
www.ulsterbulwark.org/page2.htm Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland.
In the seventeenth and early eighteenth century Presbyterians didn't have their own graveyards. Many were buried in the graveyards of the Established Church (ie the Anglican or Church of Ireland ... there was a large amount of religious persecution and the Presbyterians were not allowed to sell religious books, teach anything above primary school, and in 1704, they were barred from holding major civil and military offices.
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"The Migration of the Scots-Irish to Southwestern NC" written by Matthew A. C. Newsome © 2001 about southern Scotland in the sixteenth century. It describes the move from Scotland to Ulster where the Scots were faced with three major ethnic groups and three religions in the Ulster plantation. These were English/Anglican, Scottish/Presbyterian, and Irish/Catholic ... this naturally created more than a few problems. More than once Presbyterian ministers found themselves ordered, by the Anglicans if you please, to leave their congregations and return to Scotland. In the eighteenth century many of these Scots Presbyterians upped sticks from Ulster and headed across the Atlantic in the hope of starting afresh and having a better life where they'd not suffer from persecution.
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Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland. At the present time there are thirty seven congregations of this denomination, five in counties Monaghan and Donegal. The remainder are in the six counties of Northern Ireland.
The General despatched five soldiers to set up battle headquarters in the heart of Belfast at Felt Street, Sandy Row.
The Salvationists arrived in Belfast on 4th May, 1880.
