Church of Scotland

A community buy-out is being proposed for Reid Memorial church in West Savile Terrace

Community buy-out plan for Edinburgh church

Charity's race against the clock to save church from private sale

Protesters marched down Leith Walk to protest against racism after recent attacks

Protecting our right to protest is vital - Dan Heap

Greenside Parish Church in Royal Terrace is up for sale

City church and cottage up for sale at offers over £1 million

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Gilbert’s bravery in telling her adoption story deserves our thanks - Susan Dalg...

Edinburgh North & Leith Labour MP Tracy Gilbert

'I was given up for adoption in Kirk mother and baby home', reveals MP

Mrs Rose Wedderburn, General Secretary, United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands responds to the Kirk's apology

Church of Scotland apologises for Kirk's past involvement in slavery

First Minister John Swinney, alongside High Commissioner Lady Elish Angiolini at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

John Swinney praises role of church after visit to General Assembly

Rev Keith Graham, Rt Rev Rosie Frew and Rev Keith Douglas Creighton at HMP Edinburgh

New prison programme to help inmates cope with bereavement

The Right Reverend Josie Frew, Moderator of the Church of Scotland

Moderator cancels Easter trip to Jerusalem due to war in Middle East

Scotland's most famous church appoints minister at centre of gay row

Rt Rev Anne Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney

Scots Anglicans also rocked by scandal - John McLellan

Church could be converted to family retreat and conference centre

Rev Moira McDonald addresses the Scottish Parliament.

MSPs hear how the 'humble cheese toastie' is bringing an Edinburgh community tog...

Macular Society support groups play a vital social role for people with sight loss

Volunteers needed to help Edinburgh sight loss support group

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Promoting Scottish connections
Scotland’s diaspora and connections around the world have received a boost with latest phase of The Scottish Connections Fund, which offers funding to set up new projects to promote our international links.
Angus Robertson

Ministers say Kirk is 'sinking ship' but it can change course

Leith St. Andrew's parish church sits at the bottom of Easter Road in the heart of Leith

Campaign Launches to Keep Iconic Edinburgh church in Community Hands

The Kirk on the Canal - Rev Jack Holt is the project coordinator for the Polwarth Parish Church

Empty churches are leaving a troublesome building legacy - John McLellan

Congregation loses battle with Church of Scotland authorities

Liberton Kirk
Photo: Lisa Ferguson

Kirk unveils plans for covid memorial

St Giles Cathedral is expected to introduce a £6 charge for tourists, but Edinburgh residents could be allowed free entry.

Visitors to St Giles Cathedral facing charge

The Rt Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton has been elected the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

New Moderator is right about today's challenges and how to meet them

Cramond Kirk is set to merge with the Old Kirk Muirhouse. The Cramond building will be kept and the Old Kirk reviewed before the end of 2025. Picture: Google.

First merger in Kirk shake-up set to go ahead

New Moderator the Rt Rev Sally Foster-Fulton said she had gone "a bit rogue" in choosing a green jacket for her formal outfit. Picture: Andrew O'Brien.

Hefty challenges face Kirk, says new Moderator as Assembly opens

St Giles Cathedral plays a key national role, such as being the place where the Queen's body lay at rest before being taken south for the funeral. Picture: John Devlin.

Concerns over plans for entry charge at St Giles

The new law will pave the way for migrants arriving by small boats to be detained, deported and denied any return to the UK.

Government's plans to stop migrant crossings condemned by Church of Scotland
‘It goes against everything we uphold and value’
Neil Pooran

At the Disruption in 1843, the minister of St Mary's Church in Bellevue Crescent and a large group in the congregation broke away to form St Mary's Free Church. They met first in a building in Barony Street and in 1862 moved to a new building at the corner of Albany Street and Broughton Street. It cost £13,000, had a 180ft tower and was the pride of the Free Church - the Prince Consort was brought to see it during a visit to Edinburgh before it opened. On reunion with the Church of Scotland in 1929, the church was renmed Barony. And in 1933 it united with the congregation of nearby St James Place Church, becoming known as Barony & St James Place.
But the fabric of the building began to deteriorate and part of the tower had to be demolished. The church united with another congregation in 1956 to form Hillside Church In Greenside Place. The Barony building was sold to a theatrical costumier, and was demolished in 1983, to be replaced by offices.

Scaffolding on Barony & St James church at the junction of Albany Street and Broughton Street in Edinburgh, January 1983. It was being demolished.

8 churches which were once local landmarks but have now been lost

Three into one: St Ninian's, Corstorphine (left), St Anne's, Corstorphine (top) and St Andrew's, Clermiston (bottom) are due to merge to form one new congregation. But the presbytery's proposal is all three buildings should remain open. Pictures: Google.

Battle to save church buildings from closure

Jane Haining trained in Edinburgh and a dedication service was held at St Stephen's Church in the New Town before she left for Budapest.

Missionary who died in Holocaust to be honoured in Capital

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (second from right), Pope Francis (second from left) and Church of Scotland's Iain Greenshields (third from right) address the media while aboard a plane returning from their visit to Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan (Picture: Tiziana Fabi/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Church peace effort gives hope to war-torn South Sudan – Angus Robertson

St Davids Broomhouse is set to close it building under plans for a parish grouping with four other churches. Picture: Ian Georgeson.

A list of all Capital church buildings earmarked for closure

Many people are having to ration their use of energy to heat their homes (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Angus Robertson: If you're struggling, there are many places to keep warm

Very Rev Dr John Chalmers with his son, JJ Chalmers.

JJ Chalmers' father recalls the moment he heard his son had been in bomb blast

The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly. Picture: Andrew O'Brien.

Queen 'on good form' last weekend

Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church got one of the highest scores. Image: Google Streetview

Church buildings scored to help decide future

The Rev Moira McDonald is minister at Corstorphine Old Parish Church

Edinburgh minister appointed as chaplain to Queen

Reverend Ken MacKenzie, minister at Crathie Kirk, says the Queen never misses a church sale

Kirk minister reveals the Queen's love of church sales

Mike Ashley is opening a branch of Flannels in the former BhS store on Princes Street

Mike Ashley's new Princes Street store - your views online

Professor Jason Leitch addresses the General Assembly

Leitch tells Kirk: Covid hasn't gone away

This year's General Assembly is a hybrid gathering with 400 commissioners in the hall and another 200 taking part online. Picture: Andrew O'Brien.

Kirk's General Assembly votes to approve same-sex marriage services

This year's General Assembly is a hybrid gathering with 400 commissioners in the hall and another 200 taking part online. Picture: Andrew O'Brien.

Kirk invests £25m to grow new and existing congregations

Moderator Rev Iain Greenshields is installed in a ceremony at the beginning of The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland by his predecessor Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness.

Queen’s letter to Church of Scotland Assembly applauds supportfor refugees

Majority of Church of Scotland presbyteries are in favour of allowing ministers to marry same-sex couples if they wish

Majority of Church of Scotland presbyteries are in favour of same-sex marriage

Rev Eric Foggitt: Minister suspended over comments made to NHS colleagues.
Pic: Church of Scotland

Kirk minister made 'weird' and 'inappropriate' comments to NHS colleagues

Some of the new Penicuik Trinity Community Church congregation, pictured at St Mungo's in Penicuik.

Trinity of Penicuik churches come together to form union

Patrol woman Mollie Harris helps children cross the road at Oxgangs in February 1962.

20 pictures from the 1950s and 1960s of Edinburgh’s Oxgangs suburb

Father Vasyl Kren, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Our Lady of Pochayiv in Edinburgh who has said that the western world must provide "rapid reaction not just bank interventions" against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. (Photo credit: Father Vasyl Kren/PA Wire)

Ukrainian priest in Edinburgh begs West to do more than put sanctions on banks

A new group has been established to promote the "living legacy" of a Scottish matron Jane Haining who gave her life to protect Jewish school girls during the Holocaust (Photo: Church of Scotland).

New project to remember Scot matron who died in Auschwitz

Rev Dr Urzula Glienecke is new associate chaplain at Edinburgh University.

Chaplain was teenage rebel behind Iron Curtain

Colinton Parish Church. Picture: Lesley Martin

Kirk's 27 proposed new congregations across Capital

Lynzi Leroy, founder of the Scottish Design Exchange

Scottish Design Exchange moves into historic Edinburgh address

Lord Wallace at the helm of the All Aboard

Kirk Moderator takes helm on canal

Lord Wallace, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Lord Wallace to embark on Edinburgh visit

The happy couple on board the canal boat in Edinburgh.

Couple become first to use new canal boat for their wedding celebration