Soho Baptist Chapel

Soho Baptist Chapel is a church at 166a Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on the corner with Mercer Street. It was originally a Baptist church, which relocated to North Finchley and is now called High Road Baptist Church.^[1] The church is now the Chinese Church in London.

Soho Baptist Chapel

Soho Baptist Chapel (detail)

History

The church was built in 1887–88 to a design by the architect William Gillbee Scott for a Strict Baptist church community that had been formed in 1791.^[2] In 1916–17, it was sold to another Strict Baptist church, after their 99-year lease on a chapel in Gower Street came to an end, and became the Gower Street Memorial Chapel.^[2][3][4]

It is now the Chinese Church in London, Soho Outreach Centre.^[5]