City of Regina Archives Photograph Collection, CORA-A-1215

Title: Knox United Church, Regina , Saskatchewan
Date: 1925
Retrieval Number: CORA-A-1215
Extent: 1 Albumen Print; 9 cm x 7 cm
Scope and Content Note: Knox United Church , now known as Knox Metropolitan Church . Corner of Lorne Street and 12 th Avenue .
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: CORA Photograph Collection
Historical Note: The Knox Presbyterian Church was built in 1906. It was damaged by the cyclone of 1912 and was rebuilt within a year. In 1925 the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational churches merged to become the United Church of Canada. The congregation of Knox Presbyterian was not happy with the merger - the dissidents, united under Judge W.M. Martin, formed First Presbyterian Church in protest. When the merger was completed, there were two United Churches in downtown Regina within a one-block radius of one another! ( Metropolitan United Church stood on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Lorne Street .) In 1951, the Metropolitan and Knox churches joined to form the Knox-Metropolitan United Church . The Metropolitan Methodist Church 's buildings were chosen as the congregation's new home, and the Knox United Church was torn down to make way for Sasktel's Telecommunications Centre.