Built at the corner of Brunswick and Gerrish streets in Halifax around 1755, the Little Dutch Church was used as a meeting house for German-speaking Lutherans. It was moved in 1756. Four years later a steeple was added and it was dedicated as a church. Its significance as a provincial heritage site is partly related to the fact that the majority of non-British Protestant immigrants to Halifax between 1749 and 1752 were German-speaking Lutherans. Note the dry historic stone wall. Thanks to John Scott for this submission.
The engraving above is by John Fougeron of a drawing by Richard Short ,which is the Church of St Paul Halifax Nova Scotia 1759 showing an uncompleted or fallen down dry stone wall.
This old photo below is of a little dutch church (or 'old dutch church') in Halifax, circa 1750, of a dry stone wall which unfortunately is no longer there. The photo was takne by Joseph Rogers around 1870.
