Onehunga Cooperating Church (317 Onehunga Mall)

This plot of land on the corner of Grey Street was bought by the Presbyterian Church from a Fencible settler in 1854. His former cottage was the first home of the congregation. However, no permanent place of worship was constructed until 1862. Both of these buildings were shifted to the back of the lot to form the current Sunday School hall, while the current church dates from 1890. The first minister, George Brown, also had charge of the Avondale and Hobson Street (city) congregations and would walk the full circuit every Sunday in a time before formed roads existed. Since 1943, combined services have been held with the Methodists and other denominations, and the church is now a ‘co-operating parish’ of Presbyterians, Methodists, and the Church of Christ. Even the organs of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches were amalgamated in 2002.

Continue south along Onehunga Mall.