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=Morningside United Church=

Morningside United Church is an ecumenical congregation of the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church - the first to be created of its kind. It is located at Holy Corner in the Bruntsfield Area of South Edinburgh.

History
The last two decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the suburb of Morningside, Edinburgh, which had been a delightful rural area, fast becoming an attractive residential neighbourhood to which many were moving from the more crowded districts of the city. Among those residents were several Congregationalists who found that the distance to their own churches in the city now prevented them from continuing their former activities in those churches.

Those Congregationalists set out to hire the Morningside Athenaeum which had belonged to the UP Church and was built in 1863. Thus Morningside Congregational Church came into being in late 1887, and their first minister - Revd Douglas Mackenzie - was inducted on 17th March 1889.