Kampong Kapor Methodist Church, Singapore
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Kampong Kapor Methodist Church
Kampong Kapor Methodist Church was started in November 1890. A Sunday Malay language worship service was also conducted by the missionary, Sophia Blackmore. At the beginning, the congregation comprised 25 girls from the mission hostel, boys from Epworth Home and Malay-speaking Christian workers from Mission Press as well as 2 missionaries. A few years later, on 25 January 1894, the group shifted to the Christian Institute at 155 Middle Road. That year is taken as the start date of the church.
By the late 1920s, the church had outgrown the space at Middle Road, necessitating a shift to a new building. A plot of land was bought at Kampong Kapor Road and the new church building constructed there. It was completed in 1930, and at that time, it was called the Straits Chinese Methodist Chuch (Bickley Memorial), to reflect the largely Chinese membership of the church, and the fact that funds for its construction came from the family and friends of Bishop Bickley. In 1957, the church was renamed Kampong Kapor Methodist Church. It celebrated its hundredth anniversary in January 1994.
