Editing Milngavie (section)

== Places of worship ==
* Allander Evangelical Church
* Cairns Church of Scotland
* [http://www.milngavie.church/ Milngavie United Free Church of Scotland]
* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
* St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
* St. Luke's Church of Scotland
* [[St Paul's Church (Milngavie)|St. Paul's Church of Scotland]]

Originally Milngavie was in the [[New Kilpatrick|Parish of New Kilpatrick]], the church being that of New Kilpatrick in [[Bearsden]], with no formal place of worship in the town until the eighteenth century.
Milngavie now has three stone built churches dating from the early twentieth century within 500 m of each other. Until the 1970s these three were all Church of Scotland congregations (those of St.Paul's, Cairns, and St.Luke's) in consequence of the history of the [[Kirk]] ([[Church of Scotland]]) which saw a multitude of factions and congregations organise, each with varying forms of worship and constitutional arrangements, and which subsequently re-integrated. St.Paul's was always in the fold of the Church of Scotland and is now the [[parish church]] of Milngavie. It was originally housed in a simple grey stone church building above the Station Road beside the Milngavie Primary School before moving to a handsome red sandstone building on the [[Strathblane]] Road in 1906. The original building is now apartments. From 1799 Cairns Church had been located in a building on [[Mugdock Road]] close to the 'preaching braes' on [[Barloch Moor]] where the congregation's first services had taken place. It moved to its present building on Buchanan Street in 1903 which displays elements of the [[Glasgow Style]] of architecture and design. St.Luke's had been built as the Milngavie United Free Church. In the 1970s it was decided that the concentration of churches in one area should be reviewed and a new St. Lukes was built on the western side of the town to serve the residents of Clober. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] bought the old St.Luke's Church and moved their congregation to the new premises from a church (also "St. Joseph's" - now no longer there) on Buchanan Street at Moor Road which was associated with the neighbouring Roman Catholic Convent of Ladywood which closed in the 1970s.