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Castlereagh Presbyterian, Church Road, Castlereagh, Presbyterian

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Presbyterian church
Church Road,
Castlereagh,
County Down
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Cemeteries

The church has a graveyard.

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Church History

The congregation was founded in about 1650, with worship originally on two sites (in Knock and in Breda).  In about 1720, a church was built on the present site and the two congregations merged. The current church building was opened in 1835

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Church Records

PRONI in Belfast holds microform copies of Baptism Registers (1816-1922); Marriage Registers (1816­-1904), Communicants’ lists (1854-1893), Session Minutes (1859-1942), Committee Minutes (1870-1916) and maps of graveyard (1889 and 1947).

The Church has copies of all Baptisms from 1799 to 1921 and Marriages 1816 to 1921, which are available to buy (in the form of an Excel Spreadsheet for a cost of £10) from the congregation's Clerk of Session.

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Maps

It is located at NW4957226007 (Lat/Lon 54.567106, -5.875636). You can see this on maps provided by:

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