The Smith Memorial Congregational Church on Brickdam celebrates its 170th anniversary next Sunday, November 24. The occasion will be commemorated by an anniversary service starting at 9am, a press release from the church said.
The building was erected as a tribute to the late Reverend John Smith, a London Missionary Society Minister. Smith was sentenced to hang after being found guilty of incitement in relation to the East Coast Demerara Slave Insurrection of 1823, as well as not reporting the conspiracy to the authorities. While not guilty of the former,
