It was originally built as
Beverley Street Baptist Church in 1880 as an outreach of
Jarvis Street Baptist Church while the rest of the church was completed in 1886. The architects were
Langley and
Burke. Funding was largely donated by
William McMaster and it is a designated historic building. It overlooks The Grange that is today attached to the
Art Gallery of Ontario. The church is located just to the east of the heart of Toronto's
Chinatown. Chinese Baptists first met in the basement of the building in 1967. Five years later the church was purchased for the Chinese community with services being held in
Cantonese. Today the church offers services in Cantonese,
Mandarin and
English. The growing Chinese-Canadian Baptist community has also led to the East Toronto, North Toronto, Mississauga and Scarborough Chinese Baptist Churches being established in Toronto's suburbs as well as the Windsor Chinese Baptist Church. Many of these daughter churches have in turn established daughter churches of their own further into the suburbs. ==See also==