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Crossgates United Presbyterian Church originated as a Burgher church in 1802, when a group from Crossgates applied to Dunfermline Burgher Presbytery for supply of sermon, the church having apparently already been built. The congregation was drawn partly from Dunfermline and partly from Inverkeithing. It passed successively to the United Presbyterian and United Free Churches, and to the Church of Scotland (as Crossgates). It united with Mossgreen as Mossgreen and Crossgates in 1948. Then, in 1998, Crossgates United Presbyterian Church originated as a Burgher church in 1802, when a group from Crossgates applied to Dunfermline Burgher Presbytery for supply of sermon, the church having apparently already been built. The congregation was drawn partly from Dunfermline and partly from Inverkeithing. It passed successively to the United Presbyterian and United Free Churches, and to the Church of Scotland (as Crossgates). It united with Mossgreen as Mossgreen and Crossgates in 1948. Then, in 1998, the churches of Cowdenbeath Cairns, West and Mossgreen Crossgates united to form Cowdenbeath Trinity Church. The Church of Scotland charge was in the presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross and the synod of Fife. |