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St Margaret's is a Uniting Church Congregation in Hackett, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The soaring spire of the church building it shares〔(Welcome to HOLY CROSS ANGLICAN PARISH ), accessed 2009-12-22〕 with Holy Cross Anglican congregation is a major landmark in North Canberra, at the intersection of the four suburbs of Watson, Dickson, Downer and Hackett.〔http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/114625/Non-StatBackgroundHolyTrinity.pdf〕 The church is home to Meg's Toybox,〔(Meg's Toy Box - Phillip Avenue Hackett ), ABC Online, accessed 2009-12-22〕〔(Meg's Toy Box Toy Library ), ACT Library Service, accessed 2009-12-22〕 the major toy library for North Canberra, and the Stepping Stones for Life disability support organisation.〔http://canberraregion.unitingchurch.org.au/?p=202〕 ==History== St. Margaret's Uniting Church, together with Holy Cross Anglican Church, are the only remaining congregations from rival denominations in the Australian Capital Territory to continue to share a church, hall and grounds, and on occasions ministers and even services. The Church was founded in 1964〔(St Margaret's : the first twenty years : a history of St. Margaret's Parish, Hackett, A.C.T. 1964-1984 ), National Library of Australia, accessed 2009-12-22〕 as a shared congregation of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the then newly built North Canberra suburbs of Watson, Dickson, Downer and Hackett.〔http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2779085〕 In doing so it predated by over a decade the family of churches it now belongs to, the Uniting Church in Australia, which was formed in 1977 when the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches came together.〔http://nsw.uca.org.au/church/unitingchurch.htm〕 Services were initially held in school rooms until the completion and official dedication of the Church building on 1967-12-16.〔http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Margaret%27s_Holy_Cross_Dedication.JPG〕 It faces the Australian Catholic University's Canberra Campus (Signadou), built in 1963 as the Dominican Sisters' Teacher Training College, across Antill Street. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Margaret's Uniting Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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