ABOUT ST JOHN'S
St John the Evangelist Church, known as St John's, is a Scottish Episcopal Church in Inverness, Scotland. The church of St John's Inverness has a very long association with the town of Inverness. The present location was the former site of the Chapel of St Columba, with the first and second sites of St John's in Church Street. The history of St John's extends as far back as 1691.
Our
History
The church has been on its present site for over one hundred years, from 1903. However, the congregation of St John’s is the oldest serving Episcopal congrega-tion in Inverness, and dates itself back to the time of the Reformation in the 1500s.
There was, originally, a chapel dedicated to St John the Evangelist within the Old High Church in Inverness, and all worshipped there as the Church of Scotland.
With the complex history of the Act of Disestablishment and various penal laws, the Episcopal Church in Inverness has moved to and from various sites, finally resulting in four distinct congregations across Inverness.
Members of St John’s helped build the congregations of the Episcopal Cathedral as well as St Mary-in-the-fields, Culloden. St Michael’s, which has as chequered a history as St John’s once met on land within the parish of St John’s.