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There was a mission chapel erected at Airdrie in 1792 and a second was opened within the town a number of years later in 1833, by the name of the East Chapel of Airdrie. During the following year the General Assembly granted a Chapel constitution to the East Chapel and allocated a district to it. Also within the same year a similar constitution was given to the previously erected Chapel of 1792, which was named the West Chapel Mission. It followed that in 1835 a new church was erected within the area granted to the West Chapel, to replace the old chapel as the place of public worship. In 1851, owing to coal workings beneath the building, the East Chapel was deemed unsafe and consequently the East Mission was dissolved leaving only the West. Hence, in 1867, the West Mission was disjoined from the Parish of New Monkland and erected as the Parish of Airdrie West. The former United Free Church congregation of Airdrie Wellwynd was united with Airdrie West in 1995 under the name of Airdrie New Wellwynd. The kirk session sits within the Presbytery of Hamilton. |