Rosebank Union Church | William Nicole CNR ST Andrews, Hurlingham, Sandton, 2196, Gauteng

About twenty people gathered for the first service that marked the birth of what became known as Rosebank Union Church. Attendance at Sunday services grew steadily from that day. Thus began a pattern followed over the next 111 years.Within a month the group moved from the Rossiter home to a local school hall and then they acquired their first church building the Tin Tabernacle a wood and corrugated- iron structure that cost the sum of ten pounds, and twice that amount to dismantle it in Germiston, move it to Rosebank by ox wagon, and re-erect it on the corner of Cradock and Tyrwhitt Avenues in Rosebank!Five years later (on the 21 June 1911) the group was ready to constitute itself formally as a church. Although the church had Baptist roots, the thirteen foundation members decided that in the interests of unity and appeal to the wider community, the church should be a union (interdenominational ) church. This was a rather novel idea at that time, but the decision to major on the majors, not the min