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In February 1817 there was some disharmony in the Aberdeen Belmont Street Church when some of the elders complained to the Presbytery that their minister did not consult them with regards to the appointment of assistants at communion. The matter was not addressed at this time however it re-emerged two years later when further problems arose over the issue of the minister having denied the session the right to involve themselves with his sacramental arrangements. As a result, in 1819 a dissatisfied party within the congregation petitioned the Presbytery with a request that they be disjoined from Belmont Street, consequently in 1821 60 petitioners were erected into a new congregation and sermon was granted on the 21 January 1821. Their place of meeting was initially a temporary hall however a church was erected in George Street in 1822 and the congregation became known as George Street United Secession Church. James Stirling , the first minister of the congregation was ordained in 1824. In 1847 Aberdeen George Street United Secession church became part of the United Presbyterian Church and in 1882 the church at Carden Place was opened. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Carden Place United Presbyterian church became Carden Place United Free Church, and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, Aberdeen Carden Place United Free became Carden Place Church of Scotland. In 1962 a union was established with the congregation of Melville, to form the session of Aberdeen Melville Carden Place and further union followed in 1989 with the charge of Queen's Cross, under the name of Aberdeen Queen's Cross. The congregation of Aberdeen Queen's Cross Church of Scotland sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Aberdeen. |