Soho Baptist Chapel
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Soho Baptist Chapel is a church at 166a Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on the corner with Mercer Street. It was originally a Baptist church, which relocated to North Finchley and is now called High Road Baptist Church.{{Cite web|url=https://highroadbaptist.org/history-2/|title=History|date=February 5, 2016}} The church is now the Chinese Church in London.
History
The church was built in 1887–88 to a design by the architect William Gillbee Scott for a Strict Baptist church community that had been formed in 1791.{{cite book|author=Christopher Stell|title=Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Eastern England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLcVAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=English Heritage|isbn=978-1-873592-50-2|page=74}} In 1916–17, it was sold to another Strict Baptist church, after their 99-year lease on a chapel in Gower Street came to an end, and became the Gower Street Memorial Chapel.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/chapel_gower_street.htm|publisher=ucl.ac.uk|title=UCL Bloomsbury Project|accessdate=2016-09-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gospeltidings.org.uk/library/13/6/1.htm|publisher=gospeltidings.org.uk|title=Gospel Tidings Article.|accessdate=2016-09-09}}
It is now the Chinese Church in London, Soho Outreach Centre.{{cite web|url=https://ccil.org.uk/en/congregations/new-soho/|publisher=ccil.org.uk|title=Soho | Chinese Church In London|accessdate=2016-09-09}}
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Category:Former Baptist churches in England