Continue along the main road being mindful of traffic.
Religion has for a long time been very important to the local people. Christianity has been the religion in this region for around a thousand years.
A group of Baptists started meeting in Largo from around 1778 but it was not until 1790 that Dr John Goodsir, along with Thomas Paterson became joint pastors of a more formalised church. In 1809 Goodsir acquired the building that became known as ‘The Old Baptist Meeting House’. Prior to the use of this venue, the group had been meeting in a long-gone old, dilapidated structure. He gave his services free and largely unassisted for around 25 years until his death in 1816.
There were a number of Pastors after this and in 1867 the church became divided and a number of members broke away to set up their own congregation, which initially met in the Old Durham School at the Temple. Other, mostly older, members continued to meet in the old meeting house, meanwhile, the more modern, and largely younger, breakaway group instigated the building of the ‘new church’ on the site at the Orry. Largo Baptist Church was converted into the Aurrie in 2021.
