Early beginnings

The Salvation Army opened in Young on 12 February 1887, just seven years after its inception in Australia. In the early days, meetings were held in front of the Albion Hotel and in several local buildings, until in 1939 a hall with a small officer’s quarters at the rear was erected in Cloete Street and opened by Commissioner R Dalziel. By the turn of the century the Young Salvation Army had moved to its current Clarke Street site and in November 2000 the then-Commissioner Brian Morgan opened extensions to the centre.