Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of beautiful stained glass windows in Hope Park Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. The congregation can trace its origins back to the Associate Presbytery (led by the dissident Stirling minister Ebenezer Erskine), which broke away from the Church of Scotland in 1733. In 1738 a Kirk Session of a local congregation, initially worshipping outdoors, was recognised by the Associate Presbytery. From 1749 onwards the congregation have had meeting places in St Andrews, first in an old barn in Imrie's Close, now 136 South Street, then from 1774 in Burghers' Close, now 141 South Street, from 1827 in a purpose built chapel in North Street (no. 52) then from 1865 in the present building. The name Hope Park was suggested by the then minister the Reverend James Black. As the Associate Presbytery developed, and divisions emerged, the congregation, based on the Voluntary rather than Establishment principle, became associated with the Burghers, which in 1820 became the United Secession Church, which in turn became the United Presbyterian Church in 1847, which merged with the Free Church in 1900 to become the United Free Church of Scotland, which united with the Church of Scotland in 1929. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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