Ebenezer was an

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( Congregationalist) chapel in Inkerman Street,

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, Wales. Services at Ebenezer were conducted in the

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. The chapel was established in the 1880s after a number of members were expelled from the neighbouring

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church. The building was designed by the prolific chase builder, Thomas Thomas of Landore, at a cost of around £2,000. It could accommodate 800 people. T. Orchwy Bowen became minister in 1909 and remained until 1921. In 1917 he rejected a call to minister at Trefgarne Church in Pembrokeshire. The chapel remained open longer than any other Congregationalist chapels in the town, apart from Capel Als and Tabernacle.

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