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create a small café/ breakout space, the sanctuary was decreased in size as a result with the pews also being removed from the main floor of the sanctuary to be replaced with chairs. The balcony in the sanctuary retains the original pews. The church organ was removed given it had rarely been used since the building was purchased in 1974 and had fallen into disrepair though the organ pipes remain in place as a decorative feature above the pulpit.
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The current building underwent significant renovations and repairs in 2016/ 2017 during this time the congregation moved out of the building and met in a local community centre. These included repairs to the roof and both domes as well as internal modifications. The foyer was increased in size to
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The congregation has been in the Bon Accord building ever since it was bought in 1977. Before this, they used a building on Dee Street until the building became too small for them during the 1970s. The present building on Rosemount Viaduct seats around 700 people.
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on the site of the Union Baptist Chapel and opened in 1896. Following the Union of 1900 it became the Bon Accord United Free Church. From 1962 to 1974 it was Bon Accord St Paul's Church before reverting to Bon Accord Free Church in 1974.
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Bon-Accord Free Church was formed in 1828 via the secession of members of the congregation of Trinity Chapel, who purchased the Union Terrace church from a Baptist congregation. In 1834, it became a
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church, then Bon-Accord Church of Scotland in 1929 when the United Free church reunited with the
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The current building was designed in 1894 by the architect
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Denomination
Free Church of Scotland
Churchmanship
www.bafreechurch.org.uk
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Free Church of Scotland
Aberdeen
quoad sacra parish
Gilcomston Church
Disruption
United Free
Church of Scotland
Robert Gordon Wilson
Hector Cameron


Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive


GILCOMSTON - An Aberdeen Congregation
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