The Salvation Army has meeting rooms in the town, whilst the local Methodists, who previously worshipped in their own Chapel in Paul Street ( built in 1810 ; it is now a community centre ), have an agreement to share the parish church with the Anglican congregation.

A congregation of Particular Baptists worshipped at a chapel known as Zoar, built around 1800 at Gamlingay Cinques ; it was demolished in the mid-1960s.

In 1838, Cartwright donated land and $ 300 towards the construction of a log chapel where the congregation worshipped until 1853.

When the original Holy Family Church burned in 1997, the congregation worshipped in the school while funds were raised to build a new church.

When the church sold its property to the government to make way for the National Museum of Scotland, Alexander's congregation worshipped in the Queen Street Hall until 1861 when the new church was completed on George IV Bridge, renamed Augustine Church because of Alexander's strong, albeit independent Augustinian influence in his sermons.

For a time the Episcopal residue of that congregation worshipped in an old woollen mill in Carrubber's Close, near the site of the present Old St Paul's Church.

The Welsh Methodist congregation worshipped next door, in a smaller brick building.

During this time the congregation worshipped at nearby Guy's Chapel.

From 1851 until 1871, the congregation worshipped in a church at the northeast corner of Wabash Avenue and Washington Street in downtown Chicago.

Such cultural influences have remained until modern times, even a church in Alabama where the African American congregation worshipped in Gaelic as late as 1918, giving a clue to the extent to which the Gaels spread their culture-from North Carolina to Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.

Many have been christened and married here and many have worshipped here in the past and there is still a vibrant congregation today with two or more services every Sunday.

A frame building was erected next, a little further away from the water, and during the time the congregation worshiped in this building the current location was purchased and became the site of the cemetery.

Independent Baptist churches have no formal organizational structure above the level of the local congregation.

This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.

Services at a vast majority of congregations utilize a structure that focuses on a sermon or presentation by a minister, a lay leader of the congregation, or an invited speaker.

In 1838 descendents of the original congregation began worshiping here when the existing structure was built.

A Presbyterian congregation was established in 1839 and completed their first church, a brick structure now known as Rooster Hall, on the town square in 1843.

When termites were discovered in the hewn log sills in the 1990s, congregation members rebuilt the foundation by jacking up the walls section-by-section and cutting out and replacing the termite-riddled timbers and wall structure.

The congregation first organized in 1892, holding services in the Krasna School building, a 42 by structure located on donated by a parishioner.

Early meeting of the Christiana Bridge congregation were likely held at private residences until 1850, when a brick structure was built for worship.

The congregation disassembled the structure and rebuilt it on property purchased from Louis Taylor.

Christ Church, in the site of the graveyard at the centre of the village, was in use in 1697 and was the largest, but this thatched-roof structure was too small to hold the entire population, and most of the congregation had to gather in the churchyard during services.

Witnesses prefer the term " Kingdom Hall " over " church ", noting that the term often translated " church " in the Bible refers to the congregation of people rather than a structure.

In structure, the United Church has a " bottom-up " governance, where the congregation selects its clergy, rather than clergy being appointed by a bishop or other body.

Some non-denominational churches explicitly reject the idea of a formalized denominational structure as a matter of principle, holding that each congregation is better off being autonomous.

The current structure, completed in 1914, is the fourth church built to house this congregation and was designed by the architects Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the French High Gothic style.

Though enlarged and remodeled in 1844 to accommodate a growing congregation, this structure was destroyed by fire on 2 March 1851.

* Qahal, an Israelite organisational structure often translated as congregation

In 1861, after the congregation moved to a newly built structure, John T. Ford bought the former church and renovated it into a theatre.

Flores argued that his congregation had outgrown the existing structure, rendering the ruling a substantial burden on the free exercise of religion without a compelling state interest.

The brick structure contains a bell tower and was home to the local Methodist congregation until a new facility was built in 1949.

However, a list of principal members of the congregation from 1713 shows that its origins extend back to 1689 when the Episcopalian structure of the Church of Scotland was removed by Act of the Scottish Parliament, and the Scottish Episcopal Church as a separate entity emerged.

The church was a circular structure where the congregation sat in a semicircle around the altar.

The congregation has not been part of any other denomination or structure since its gathering in 1831.

In 1905, after the original Unity Church burned down, the Universalist congregation of Oak Park, Illinois turned to architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design them a new structure.

They also consider them to be full members of the local congregation where their parents are members and members of the universal Church ( the set of all true believers who make up the invisible church ) unless and until they prove otherwise.

Until recently, a non-cardinal appointed to head a congregation was styled as pro-prefect until he was made cardinal in a consistory.

Hensley served as the minister of the congregation and President of the Board of Directors until his death in 1999, at which time there were many independent branches of the ULC worldwide.

Shortly thereafter, in 1789, The Falls Church was abandoned and was not re-occupied again until 1836, by an Episcopal congregation.

Once the decision to disfellowship has been made, a person has seven days to appeal, after which, if the person has not appealed, the disfellowshipping will be announced to the congregation ; disfellowshipping does not take effect until the announcement is made to the congregation.

Reproved individuals have some congregation privileges restricted, until the elders decide that the member has regained " spiritual strength.

As more settlers arrived, the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to grow until the division that brought on the Civil War in the nation also caused a split in the congregation.

The Episcopalians established a congregation in 1834, but did not build their Trinity Episcopal Church until 1850.

In 1861, the congregation of Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected a building which served as both a church and a school until 1867 when the present church building was built.

It was used until about 1918 when the congregation disbanded.

The Missionary Church, built in Elbing in 1910, was used until the 1960s when the congregation moved to nearby Newton, Kansas.

Commerce was a Methodist town with a congregation established as early as 1825 and without a Baptist church until 1906.

This land was part of the larger purchase and referred to as the Horse Neck Tract until February 17, 1787, when the town congregation voted to change the name to Caldwell, in honor of the Reverend James Caldwell who pushed for their organization ’ s creation.

The congregation used this building until 1852, when the larger building on Main Street in Kingston was constructed on land purchased from Elijah Stout.

The Barnwell Baptist Church had their services on this site until 1854 when the congregation built another church building on a different site in the town.

Here he remained until 1840, encountering many difficulties, due both to the distrust of those within the congregation who suspected the piety of a rabbi able to speak grammatical German, and who was a graduate of a German university, and to the peculiar legislation which in Prussia under Frederick William III regulated the status of the Jewish congregations.

In 1571 a special congregation was created, the Sacred Congregation of the Index, which had the specific task to investigate those writings that were denounced in Rome as being not exempt of errors, to update the list of Pope Pius IV regularly and also to make lists of required corrections in case a writing was not to be condemned absolutely but only in need of correction ; it was then listed with a mitigating clause ( e. g., donec corrigatur ( forbidden until corrected ) or donec expurgetur ( forbidden until purged )).

“ Where now is there a man who, like the primitive Christians, is traveling to heaven barefooted and clad in coarse raiment ?” the preacher repeatedly asked until Johnny Appleseed, his endurance worn out, walked up to the preacher, put his bare foot on the stump that had served as a podium, and said, “ Here's your primitive Christian !” The flummoxed sermonizer dismissed the congregation.

It is commendable for the khatib to be on a pulpit or an elevated place ; to salute the congregation when directing himself towards them ; to sit down until the adhan is pronounced by the muezzin ; and to direct himself straightway to his audience.

" During his Sunday sermon on March 27 he addressed his congregation on the subject of the " calamities " that had begun in his own household, but stated " it never brake forth to any considerable light, until diabolical means were used, by the making of a cake by my Indian man, who had his direction from this our sister, Mary Sibly ," going on to admonish all against the use of any kind of magic, even white magic, because it was essentially, " going to the Devil for help against the Devil.

The Chapel was also the home of Trinity Lutheran Church until the congregation built its own church in 1937.