SYDNEY MINES — “It’s bittersweet, because we’ve really felt like a church family here.
Marilyn Whyte says she and other board members of the Clyde Avenue Baptist Church are finding it difficult to process the closure of their house of worship after more than a century of service to Sydney Mines and area residents and beyond.
Several days ago, church clerk/secretary Deb White posted on social media that “after 119 years of faithful service, Clyde Avenue Baptist Church will close the doors of their building at 30 Clyde Ave., Sydney Mines.”As the Valmac Realty sign outside the church’s front steps indicated on Wednesday, the building has now been sold. According to real estate website Realtor.com, the church had been put up for sale with an asking price of $189,000.
Back in September, a New Waterford Anglican church closed due to years of declining attendance and a forced closure because the COVID-19 pandemic, which left that church’s warden weighing options on how best to proceed. And a year ago, the Glace Bay Baptist Church closed permanently for much of the same reasons.
Other members attribute the declining membership to families moving out west, where job opportunities may have been more abundant, members passing away, or being fearful someone might still catch COVID-19, James said. According to the “Clive Avenue United Baptist Church, Sydney Mines” booklet covering its history between 1903 and 1990, it began when eight people met at the studio of one Samuel Stubbert at the turn of the 20th century. Future meetings would be held at Temperance Hall, but as interest and attendance grew, a new building was erected at a cost of $2,000 back in the day. The initial church was organized at the same time — and on Dec. 20, 1903, the building officially opened for worshippers.
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