Robert Samut Hall
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| location = Floriana
| country = Malta
| denomination = Secularized
| previous denomination = Methodist Church of Great Britain
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| former name = Wesleyan (Methodist) Church
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| founded date = 1881
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| architect = Thomas Mullet Ellis
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| style = Neo-Gothic
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The Robert Samut Hall is a late 19th-century defunct Methodist church, formerly named Wesleyan (Methodist) Church, now a state owned building in Floriana, Malta.{{cite book|last1=Bonnici|first1=Joseph|last2=Cassar|first2=Michael|date=2004|title=A Chronicle of Twentieth Century Malta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4ZoAAAAMAAJ&q=Guze+Pace+|publisher=Book Distributors Limited (BDL)|page=35|isbn=9789990972276}}
Origins
The current Neo-Gothic church was built between 1881 and 1883 on designs by architect Thomas Mullet Ellis. It was opened for worship on 18 March 1883. It was the first building in Malta to make use of electricity.{{cite web|last1=Scerri|first1=John|title=Methodist Church|url=http://www.malta-canada.com/churches-chapels/Floriana.htm|website=malta-canada.com|access-date=20 February 2015}}
Secularised
The church was given to the government in the early 1970s. On 4 April 1975, the building was inaugurated as a centre for cultural activities and renamed Robert Samut Hall.{{cite web|title=Robert Samut Hall|url=http://www.florianalocalcouncil.com/index.php/mnmap/2012-09-28-07-49-40/robert-samut-hall|website=Floriana Local Council|access-date=20 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211043147/http://www.florianalocalcouncil.com/index.php/mnmap/2012-09-28-07-49-40/robert-sammut-hall|archive-date=11 February 2015}} The hall houses an interesting 2 manual pneumatic Willis organ.{{cite web|title=Robert Samut Hall, Floriana|url=http://www.robertbuhagiar.com/article.asp?ArticleID=6|website=robertbuhagiar.com|access-date=20 February 2015}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal|url=http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Proceedings%20of%20History%20Week/PHW2009/09s.pdf|title=New Light On Webster Paulson and his Architectural Idiosyncrasies|first=M.|last=Gauci|journal=Proceedings of History Week (PHW)|date=2009|pages=137–150|volume= 12|issue= 9}}
- {{cite journal|last=Mirabelli|first=Terence|date=2015|title=The ANZAC experience in Malta - Arrival|url=http://malta.embassy.gov.au/files/mlta/one%20ANZAC%20experience%20-%20Arrival.pdf|page=8|publisher=The Island Publications Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316172504/http://malta.embassy.gov.au/files/mlta/one%20ANZAC%20experience%20-%20Arrival.pdf|archive-date=16 March 2016|location=Ta’ Xbiex}}
See also
{{Portal box|History|Malta}}