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Ebenezer Church

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From Exploring Southwark: "The Norwegian Mission Society opened a mission in Rotherhithe in 1868, originally in a temporary church until a permanent building, called the Ebenezer Church, was opened in July 1871. The site had been donated by the Surrey Commercial Dockyard Company and located in Bickley Row which became a part of Rotherhithe Street. It was on the eastern side of the peninsular {sic}, north of Greenland Dock and close to Norway Yard and Norway Dock." The site is now occupied by Oscar Court, on a bend in Rotherhithe Street, opposite Odessa Street.

From Faith, Fatherland and the Norwegian Seaman: The Work of the Norwegian Seamen ... By Virginia Hoel and from Know your London: The church opened on 1 May 1872 and initially ministered to both Swedish and Norwegian sailors. In 1905 the union between the two countries came to an end and a separate Swedish Seamen’s Mission was founded.  Ebenezer church remained in use as a church until the 1920s when St Olavs was built. The old church building was then used as a Dockland Settlement Community Centre until it was demolished about 2013. The foundation stone of St Ebenezer was re-erected on the new church.

The church name, Ebenezer, can mean Stone of Help, as in the Biblical passage referenced (1 Samuel 7.12) "Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."

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