St. Margaret's Uniting Church

St Margaret's Hackett ACT
35°14′51″S 149°09′18″E / 35.2475°S 149.1551°E / -35.2475; 149.1551Coordinates: 35°14′51″S 149°09′18″E / 35.2475°S 149.1551°E / -35.2475; 149.1551
Denomination Uniting Church in Australia
Churchmanship Protestant
Website http://stmargs.unitingchurch.org.au/
History
Dedication St Margaret of Scotland
Administration
Diocese Canberra Region Presbytery
Clergy
Minister(s) Rev Chris Lockley

St Margaret's is a Uniting Church Congregation in Hackett, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

The soaring spire of the church building it shares[1] with Holy Cross Anglican congregation is a major landmark in North Canberra, at the intersection of the four suburbs of Watson, Dickson, Downer and Hackett.[2]

The church is home to Meg's Toybox,[3][4] the major toy library for North Canberra, and the Stepping Stones for Life disability support organisation.[5]

40th anniversary celebration marking dedication of Holy Cross Anglican Church and St. Margaret's Uniting Church Hackett

History

St. Margaret's Uniting Church, together with Holy Cross Anglican Church, are the only remaining congregations from rival denominations in the Australian Capital Territory to continue to share a church, hall and grounds, and on occasions ministers and even services.

The Church was founded in 1964[6] as a shared congregation of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the then newly built North Canberra suburbs of Watson, Dickson, Downer and Hackett.[7] In doing so it predated by over a decade the family of churches it now belongs to, the Uniting Church in Australia, which was formed in 1977 when the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches came together.[8]

Services were initially held in school rooms until the completion and official dedication of the Church building on 1967-12-16.[9]

It faces the Australian Catholic University's Canberra Campus (Signadou), built in 1963 as the Dominican Sisters' Teacher Training College, across Antill Street.

Tradition

Worship at St Margaret's is in the liberal Protestant tradition of the Uniting Church in Australia.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Welcome to HOLY CROSS ANGLICAN PARISH, accessed 2009-12-22
  2. ↑ http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114625/Non-StatBackgroundHolyTrinity.pdf
  3. ↑ Meg's Toy Box - Phillip Avenue Hackett, ABC Online, accessed 2009-12-22
  4. ↑ Meg's Toy Box Toy Library, ACT Library Service, accessed 2009-12-22
  5. ↑ http://canberraregion.unitingchurch.org.au/?p=202
  6. ↑ St Margaret's : the first twenty years : a history of St. Margaret's Parish, Hackett, A.C.T. 1964-1984, National Library of Australia, accessed 2009-12-22
  7. ↑ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2779085
  8. ↑ http://nsw.uca.org.au/church/unitingchurch.htm
  9. ↑ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Margaret%27s_Holy_Cross_Dedication.JPG
  10. ↑ http://assembly.uca.org.au/about.html#3
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