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St Andrew's Scots Church
St Andrew's Scots Church
Saint Andrew's Scots Church, A Union of the Church of Scotland and the Methodist Church of England, South East District
Saint Andrew's International Church
	St. Andrew's Scots Church
	St Andrew's Scots Church
	35°53′51.4″N 14°30′35.3″E / 35.897611°N 14.509806°E
Location	Valletta
Country	Malta
Denomination	Church of Scotland (Presbyterian); Methodist Church of Great Britain
History
Status	Active
Founded	1824
Architecture
Functional status	Worship Service every Sunday at 10:30 All are WELCOME
Architect(s)	Giuseppe Bonavia
Architectural type	Neo-Gothic
Completed	1857
Administration
Synod	Methodist Church UK, South-East District
Presbytery	International Presbytery Church of Scotland
Clergy
Minister(s)	Rev. Beata Thane

St. Andrew's Scots Church, sometimes known as the Church of Scotland, is a 19th-century church in Valletta, Malta. The church was built to the neo-Gothic design of Maltese architect Giuseppe Bonavia.^[1] It is still an active church today, as a joint congregation of the Church of Scotland, as part of the Presbytery of Europe, and the British Methodist Church South-East District.^[2]

History

Casa Torrensi

The site was previously occupied by Casa Torrensi, built during the Order of St. John in the 17th-century, and carried the address number of 60. The site is located in the proximity of the Demandolx townhouses, of which two from three survived the war. The remaining two are today occupied by the Ministry of Finance.^[1]

The church

The site was bought by Reverend John Keeling in 1824 in order to build the first non-Catholic church in Malta.^[3] It is the first Neo-Gothic building on the Maltese islands.^[4] Initially the church was built for the Methodist community, only to be later acquired by the Church of Scotland and used by the Presbyterian community.^[5] Since the turn of the 20th-century it has a mixed congregation that includes presbyterians, methodists, other protestants/reformists and some Catholics.^[3]

The church was built in 1857 by Reverend Dr. George Wisely. He ministered a small methodist congregation from the year it was built till 1896.^[6]

It was the first neo-Gothic church to be built in Malta, on the designs of Maltese architect Giuseppe Bonavia.^[7]

Wiseley was minister of St Andrew's and Presbyterian Chaplain to the Forces in Malta from 1854 to 1914. The current minister is Rev. Beata Thane from the Church of Scotland. Previous Ministers were Rev. Kim Hurst from the Methodist Church, Rev. Doug McRoberts, a Church of Scotland minister, who succeeded Methodist Rev. David Morris, who in 2002 had followed Rev. Colin Westmarland (from 1975 onwards) who had been the first minister not to be a UK military chaplain.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b F. Denaro, Victor (1963). "Yet more houses in Valletta" (PDF). Melita Historica. 3 (4): 15–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
^ Gill, Robin (2002). Changing Worlds: Can the Church Respond?. A&c Black. p. 113. ISBN 9780567369390.
^ ^a ^b "Valletta". www.malta-canada.com. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
^ Mahoney, Leonardo (1996). 5000 years of Architecture in Malta. Valletta Publishing. p. 309.
^ Scicluna, J. (2018, April 15). Il-knejjes u kappelli mibnijin fi żmien l-Ingliżi (2). Torċa, pp. 22-23.
^ Borg, Malcolm (1 January 2001). British Colonial Architecture: Malta, 1800-1900. Publishers Enterprises Group. ISBN 9789990903003.
^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A-F. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. pp. 220–221. ISBN 9789993291329.
^ Ltd, Allied Newspapers. "150th anniversary of St Andrew's Scots Church". Times of Malta. Retrieved 7 February 2017.