Heath Street Baptist Church - Hampstead, Camden, London, UK
N 51° 33.477 W 000° 10.705
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The Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead at 84 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN
Waymark Code: WMT592
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/28/2016
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The striking Heath Street Baptist Church has ben ministering to London's Baptist faithful since 1861.
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"Welcome to Heath Street Baptist Church!
From our foundation in 1861 to the present day, our desire has been to see strangers transformed into a community, and neighbours working together to transform the world. Our community is founded on our common desire to love God, serve our neighbourhood, and follow Jesus Christ.
The church stands halfway between Hampstead High Street and the famous Heath. Like the Heath, our church stands as a place of beauty, tranquillity and reality in the heart of busy London.
HISTORY
Our openness owes much to our forebears – the Baptists of Hampstead – who, in the nineteenth century, worshipped in an upstairs room of a house on Holly Bush Hill. There in 1825 the church decided to open its Communion Service to all believers (whether baptised as believers or not), even though this sadly led to some setting up a rival ‘Strict Baptist Church’ in New End. So for us, ‘openness’ is a word which should characterise our church today. We welcome all seekers after God’s truth, whatever their race, creed or sexuality.
We owe our building (which opened in 1861) not least to the generosity of James Harvey – a London merchant and deacon of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church – who, recently widowed, moved out of the city to Hampstead for the sake of his young son’s failing health. As a ‘Thank You’ to God for his son’s subsequent recovery, he bought what was then a plot of land used as a fruit and vegetable garden and set about the building of what was to become Heath Street Baptist Church. Whatever else we are, we try not to forget that our current ‘home’ is a “Thank You” to God. Long may it be so!"