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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Hanover Street Baptist Church

The Hanover Street Baptist Church was built in 1864, when the foundation stone was laid by Mr. John Hyde Harris, the Superintendent of the province of Otago. The erection of a worthier and more modern building, to cost about £5,000, is to take place in the near future. A fine Sunday school built of stone, containing a large lecture hall and five classrooms, adjoms the present church. The Literary Debating Society, with over seventy members, meets there, and gives readings and lectures several evenings in the week. The Sunday school has 490 pupils, and fifty-four teachers, under the superintendence of Mr. A. S. Adams. The congregation also has a Young Men's and Young Women's Bible class, numbering about fifty, and a senior and junior Christian Band with about 100 members. There is also a Chinese class, where twenty-five scholars are taught English through the New Testament. The Baptist churches and missions in Dunedin and suburbs are at Hanover Street, North East Valley, Kaikorai, Caversham, South Dunedin, Mornington, Maori Hill, Albany Street, and Opoho; the last three being page 187 branch churches carried on and supported by the Hanover Street church.