×

 

• 

Peter Cooper Studio
When, at a ground-breaking ceremony last year, it was announced that the chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints would be completed in 14 months, there were many outside the church who felt that the project was a bit optimistic, especially when it was learned that the majority of the work was to be done by voluntary labour. But this feat was accomplished and today, in Nayland Road, Stoke, stands solid testimony of the zeal and work that went into this building. We can describe the achievement and the building only as magnificent. Embodied in it are facets of building present in no other church in Nelson and few in New Zealand. What is more, the chapel has been opened debt free. It cost £68,000.

×

 

• 

An interior view during the official opening. The speaker, when this picture was taken, was Mr Fred Schwendiman, president of the church's New Zealand South Mission.

×

 

• 

The sect believes in total immersion of the body for baptism and a special bath, with steps leading to separate changing rooms for men and women, has been built.

×

 

• 

Professor Matla at the organ

×

 

• 

Mr Lester Hawthorne at the pulpit during the ceremony and behind him are Messrs Benjamin Hippolite, Nelson branch president, Doug Strawbridge (Mayor), Stan Whitehead (Member of Parliament), Muir McGlashen (Mayor of Richmond), W. W. Williams and John Fluhman, building supervisor.