A Protestant church internationally renowned for its charitable works. Founded as the "East London Christian Mission" or "Christian Revival Society" by William and Catherine Booth. Initially its meetings were held in the open air, but then moved into a tent on the Mile End Waste. The first of these meetings is taken as the origin of the 'East London Christian Mission'. At a meeting at 272 Whitechapel Road on 7 August 1878 the Mission was reorganised along military lines and renamed the Salvation Army.
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Salvation Army
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Bethnal Green Housing Association - Brent House
The halo and the baby would suggest the woman represented is the Virgin Mary ...
Catherine Booth statue - Denmark Hill
The statue was dedicated on the centenary of Catherine Booth's birth, and aga...
Catherine Booth statue - Mile End
{On the plaque attached to the front of the plinth:} Here, in East London, Ca...
Hackney Salvation Army - 1 - Chief of the Staff
At this date the Chief of Staff was Bramwell Booth.
Salvation Army - indoors
The first indoor meeting of the mission which became The Salvation Army was h...
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Salvation Army
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Salvation Army Ronalds Road - east
{Top plaque:} This stone was laid by Mrs Onslow, for the glory of God and the...
Salvation Army Ronalds Road - west
[Top plaque:} This stone was laid by Mrs Heywood Smith, for the glory of God ...
Other Subjects
St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
John Patteson
Instituted as Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields on 15 Feb 1856 and still there in 1867. Not to be confused with John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia (1827 – 1871). Our colleague Andrew ...
Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland
Fr. Rowland opened a a mission church in 1881 in a small field near a pond just off the Brecknock Road. This later became the church hall - still in use in 2013 (probably the building immediately...
The Venerable Francis William Harvey
Archdeacon of London in 1979. Francis William Harvey was born on 28 September 1930, the son of Frank Harvey (b.1899) and Clara Annie Harvey née Prince (1906-1990). His birth was registered in the ...
St Mary Bothaw
'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer. In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great ...