First Church of Otago

First Church is an prominent church in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is situated in the core of the city on Moray Place, 100 meters toward the south of the downtown area. The congregation is the city's essential Presbyterian church. The building is viewed as the most amazing of New Zealand's nineteenth-century places of worship, and is recorded by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. The First Church stood near the previous shoreline in the city's lower High Street. This was an unpleasant, weatherboard building, raised rapidly, and fit for holding approximately 200 individuals.

It was opened in September 1848, inside a half year of the entry of the city's first changeless European pioneers from Scotland. So rushed was the development of the building that early assemblies needed to stay remaining, as seating was not introduced until three months after the fact. A stone church was worked in 1850 which extended and broadened the first structure, multiplying its ability.

This building filled in as a congregation, as well as, in the city's initial days, was additionally a school, open address corridor, and filled in as the Otago Provincial Council chambers. The building was utilitarian, and may have just at any point been expected as a transitory arrangement, as plans for an all the more stately building were being mooted as ahead of schedule as 1856. After development of the changeless church, the 1848 and 1850 structures were utilized as a fleece store, however were annihilated by flame in 1865.