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The Baptist Union of Wales (Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru) is a Baptist denomination Wales. It is affiliated with the Free Church Council , Cytûn (Churches Together in Wales), the European Baptist Federation , and the Baptist World Alliance .
Baptists Together, formally the Baptist Union of Great Britain, is a Baptist Christian denomination in England and Wales. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and Churches Together in England .
Cytûn: Churches Together in Wales (Welsh: [kəˈtɨːn], "agreed"; English: / k ə ˈ t iː n /) is a national ecumenical organisation of churches in Wales, formed in 1990. It is the successor to the former Council of Churches for Wales.
The Association has its origins in the establishment of Baptist churches in Cork (1640), Dublin (1642) and Waterford (1650). [1] In 1725, there were 11 Baptist churches, and 9 formed the Irish Baptist Association. [2] The Irish Baptist Association was reorganised in 1862, and was replaced by the Baptist Union of Ireland in 1895. [3]
The Old Baptist Union was founded in 1880, owing largely to the labours of Henry Augustus Squire, an itinerant preacher. Currently, the Old Baptist Union has 16 member churches (in England and Wales) with about 700 members.
Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon (more correctly, "Ebenezer Baptist Church"), is a Baptist church in Port Talbot, Wales. [1] Built in 1881, [2] it is located in the Civic Square, where it is the only surviving building from the old Port Talbot town centre to have survived the wholesale demolition that preceded the construction of a new town centre during the mid-1970s; [3] the address was formerly ...
Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare, was one of the largest baptist churches in the South Wales Valleys and the oldest in the Aberdare valley. The chapel had an ornate interior, including a boarded ceiling with a deeply undercut rose, while the balcony balustrading had a cast iron front with an intricate foliage design. [1]
The only community which probably has no active churches is Llanfrothen although Saint Brothen's Church still has the occasional service.. There is no online register of churches belonging to the Union of Welsh Independents, so the only source for UWI churches is the Coflein (historic buildings) register, at which point it becomes impossible to distinguish open from closed UWI churches.