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Edinburgh Bristo Associate Congregation, which belonged to the Burgher branch of the Secession church, was established at the breach of 1747, when a small number of the congregation of the Edinburgh Old Associate Church adhered to the Burgher Church. Included within the membership of this newly established congregation were the two men in whom the rights of the Nicholson Street Church, belonging to the Edinburgh Old Associate Church, were vested. As a result, and after much resistance, the minister of the Nicholson Street building, Mr Gibb, and the majority of his congregation, were forced to vacate the premises to allow the Burgher congregation to take up residence. The first minister of Bristo Associate Congregation was later ordained in 1754. A new church was erected in 1804. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, Bristo United Presbyterian became Bristo United Free Church and following the 1929 union between the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, Bristo United Free was renamed Bristo Church of Scotland. In 1937 the congregation was dissolved and the buildings were sold. A famous member of the session of Edinburgh Bristo United Presbyterian and United Free was James Thin, the founder of the bookshops bearing that name: he was Elder for 61 years and Session Clerk for 58. James Thin died in 1915 in his 92nd year. |