RECORDS OF ZOAR INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, STROOD

N/I/150B

1714-1935

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The congregation was established in the mid to late-18th century, with the new (Zoar) chapel opening in 1796, and the chapel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1935. The congregation initially met in a house on the same site that came to be known as the Strood Tabernacle (formed January 1785) and later also as the Church of Christ (see N/I/150B/1/1). The building was situated at 33 High Street, Strood, not far from Rochester Bridge. The chapel became subject to a compulsory purchase order in the late 1960s and the remaining congregation dispersed to other similar churches in the area. By 1970 Zoar Chapel and Strood Gospel Mission had joined to establish Waterford House on Rede Court Road. Zoar Chapel was demolished that same year.