Our history
Albany Park Baptist Church was founded in 1941, during the second world war, as a church plant from Days Lane Baptist Church. This was to meet needs of a community that had started to grow rapidly in the 30s as a result of the new station at Albany Park, making the area an attractive part of commuter land.
The church began in the front room of a house in Hurst Road. When numbers became too large the fellowship rented a vacant W H Smith shop close to the station.
Eventually the Council made some land available as part of further development in the 1950s. The plan was for a church, a hall and a manse. The hall was built first as a multipurpose facility which most people now regard as the church. The land intended for the manse now has the hall and a car park. The land intended for the church is still empty but we dream that one day the original vision will be fulfilled.