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About Dromore Baptist Church
Dromore Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Dromore, County Down, a member of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland.
History
The congregation had its origins in 1928 among a group connected with a mission hall known as the Blue Room in Church Street, who had become exercised about baptism and the Lord's Supper. They held a few Sunday morning meetings in the mission hall, but as it was interdenominational they were unable to continue there, and met for a short time in a small house in Gallows Street. The late Pastor F. H. Forbes, then pastor of the Ballykeel church, was approached about starting a Baptist church in Dromore and gave help and advice. The church was formed on a Saturday in 1928 and the first Baptist meeting held.
The first gospel mission was conducted in April 1929. In the congregation's early years Pastor Forbes came each Wednesday evening for the Bible study, while also serving the Ballykeel and Derryneil churches.
The building
A room in Castle Street was rented from the owner of a stitching factory and converted into a hall seating about 80 to 100 people. The lease ran for only five years, and the congregation decided to look for a site on which to build. A site was available at Mossvale; a friend loaned the church £100, which was sufficient to purchase it, and the church was built for £300, the debt being cleared within a few years. The building was opened on Christmas Day 1932 with a conference of two meetings, followed by two further meetings on Boxing Day.
A prayer room and kitchen were built in 1961 and the whole building renovated. Pews were added in the 1960s, and between 1974 and 1983 the partition separating the prayer room from the church was moved back to allow extra seating. The church's own history dates the Mossvale building from 25 December 1932 to 3 October 1994.
