A history mystery
Compared with the worldwide Salvation Army, the Salvos’ history in the Sutherland Shire is fairly recent. Or is it?
An article in The Salvation Army’s War Cry newspaper dated 23 August 1969 reports that: In the vestry of the Congregational Church, hitherto unknown to the Salvationists, is a photograph of the very first hall in Miranda. A large galvanised iron building which stood on The Kingsway, it was purchased from the Army by the Congregationalists for their first church on the Cronulla peninsula in about 1895. A picture of the said hall has been found in The Salvation Army’s heritage centre.
However, the Salvation Army’s official records state that the first official Salvation Army work in the Sutherland Shire started in the 1950s in Miranda.
