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After the Disruption in 1843, Free Church mission work began in the Cowgate district of Edinburgh, initially supported by Lady Effingham until around 1852 when the New North congregation assumed responsibility for this work. In 1853 a Free Church congregation was formed within St Mary's Chapel and in 1858 a missionary was appointed, who became the first minister of Cowgate Free Church in 1859, when the Free Church Assembly sanction the charge. In 1860 a church was opened in the Cowgate to house the congregation. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Cowgate Free Church became Edinburgh Cowgate United Free Church and in 1910 Cowgate United Free joined with the congregations of College Street United Free and Pleasance United Free to form the session of Edinburgh Union United Free Church. The united congregation remained as Union United Free until the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, when the charge became Edinburgh College Church of Scotland. In 1961 College Church of Scotland was transported to Muirhouse as a Church Extension charge, and adopted the name of Muirhouse. A further name change came in 1995 when the congregation became known as Muirhouse St Andrew's. Muirhouse St Andrew's sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. |