St. Paul's-Eastern United Church (Ottawa)

St. Paul's Eastern United Church is one of the oldest congregations in Ottawa. The current church is a merger between St. Paul's Church and Weslyan Eastern Church that occurred soon after the creation of the United Church of Canada in 1925.

The Church is located in the heart of downtown Ottawa on the corners of Daly and Cumberland streets. The church used to have a large steeple[?]. Unfortunately the church was built on sand, and the steeple side started sinking into the ground and the steeple had to be removed leaving the Church as a fairly squat stone structure.

In recent years the church has struggled. The growing secularization of Canadian society and the smaller number of people living downtown had meant the the church is rarely more than half full. The Sunday School[?] rarely has had more than a handful of children, and the church had to sell the manse to raise needed funds for renovations.