Church Name: | NewHope Baptist Church |
Church Previous Name: | Blackburn North Baptist Church/Middleborough Road Baptist Church |
Denomination: | Baptist |
Street Address: | 3 Springfield Rd, Blackburn North VIC 3130, Australia |
Suburb: | Blackburn North |
State: | VIC |
Postcode: | 3130 |
Foundation Stone Laid: | unknown |
Foundation Stone Notes: | No Foundation Stone details are known. Information/photographs are invited. A plaque following extension and renovations completed in 2006 records: NewHope Baptist Church - Auditorium and Community Centre - opened by - Phillip Barresi MHR - Member for Deaken - and - Graham Francis - President Baptist Union of Victoria - and - Jean Barnden and Mollie Carne - Foundation Members - 27 May 2006 - "Fruit that will last." Plaques from earlier buildings record:
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Date Opened: | 21-10-1951 |
Date Closed: | unknown |
Email: | admin@churchesaustralia.org |
The NewHope Baptist Church, Blackburn North. The first Baptist church in Blackburn North was opened as the Middleborough Road Baptist Church, diagonally opposite the current church site. After the move to the current site the name was changed to the Blackburn North Baptist Church, and subsequently changed to the NewHope Baptist Church.
Recent extension and renovations were completed in August 2018 and officially opened on 24/11/2018
More historical information/photographs of the church/congregation are invited. Photographs uploaded 20/11/2018.