The Glebe Community Centre (french: Centre communautaire du Glebe) is a historic structure currently serving as a

community centre Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...

for

The Glebe The Glebe is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located just south of Ottawa's downtown area in the Capital Ward. According to the Glebe Community Association, the neighbourhood is bounded on the north by the Queensway, on the ...

neighbourhood in

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, Canada. Originally built as St. James Methodist Church, construction began in 1914 and took ten years. The church became St. James United Church in 1925 when the

Methodist Church, Canada The Methodist Church was the major Methodist denomination in Canada from its founding in 1884 until it merged with two other denominations to form the United Church of Canada in 1925. The Methodist Church was itself formed from the merger of four ...

merged into the

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. The massive

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style structure was designed by Clarence Burritt. In the 1960s and 1970s church attendance declined and in 1973 the St. James congregation was merged with the nearby Glebe United Church, creating Glebe-St. James United Church. The St. James United Church building was bought by the City of Ottawa and converted into a

. In the late 1990s, the city pushed to close the structure in favour of building a new community centre in Brewer Park that would serve both the Glebe and

Old Ottawa South Old Ottawa South is an older urban neighbourhood in Capital Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Old Ottawa South is a relatively small and compact neighbourhood, located between the Rideau Canal (to the north) and the Rideau River (to the south). The ...

. Both communities protested this plan and it was scrapped. Instead, extensive renovations were undertaken, which were completed in October 2004.

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External links

*{{official, https://ottawa.ca/en/recreation-and-parks/recreation-facilities/facility-listing/glebe-community-centre
Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group
Buildings and structures in Ottawa Community centres in Canada Churches completed in 1924 Palladian Revival architecture in Canada Former Methodist churches Former churches in Canada