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MORNINGSIDE UNITED CHURCH
Morningside United Church is an ecumenical congregation - simultaneously in membership of the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church. It is situated at Holy Corner in South Edinburgh.

The congregation was formed from a linking of North Morningside Parish Church of Scotland and Morningside Congregational Church in 1973 - followed by formal union in 1980.

It is referred to in an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and as an exception in certain legal matters by the founding Act of the United Reformed Church in the Westminster Parliament.

Famous names in MUC's history include the noted preacher, Very Revd Professor James S Stewart who was minister of North Morningside, and Eric Liddell - missionary and Olympic athlete - the subject of the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire. Liddell was a member of the Congregational Church.