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The congregation of Inverkeithing Associate (Burgher) Church was established in 1752, following the presentation of a petition to the Burgher Presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline, signed by around 127 town coucillors, heads of familes, and others resident within Inverkeithing, requesting provision of sermon. The request was granted and in the following year a church with seating for 600 was erected. David Forrest, the first minister of the congregation was ordained in January 1755. In 1847 Inverkeithing Burgher Church became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, Inverkeithing United Presbyterian became Inverkeithing United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotlland and the Church of Scotland, the charge was renamed Inverkeithing St John's Church of Scotland. In 1958 a link was established between Inverkeithing St John's Church of Scotland and North Queensferry Church of Scotland and the linked congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Dunfemline. |