Dundela
St Mark, Holywood Road, Belfast
Directions to the church:
The church is situated on the main Holywood Road going towards the Bangor Road. It has a very distinctive sandstone tower which is visible from all over Belfast. Alternatively the church can be approached from the Sydenham by-pass, by turning back towards Belfast at the Tillysburn Roundabout.
Service times:
Sundays
8.30am: Early Morning Service
Holy Communion: Weekly
10.30am: Main Morning Service
Family Service: 1st Sunday
Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday
6.30pm: Evening Service
Holy Communion: 1st Sunday
Mid-Week
Holy Communion
Every Wednesday at 11am
Prayer
Morning Prayer: Monday - Friday (7.30am)
Evening Prayer: Monday - Friday (5.30pm)
Contact us:
John McDowell (Rector)
028 9065 9047
Linda NIcholson (Parish Clerk)
028 9065 4090
A bit about us:
St. Mark’s was built in the 1870s to a design by the renowned Victorian architect William Butterfield. It is a building of rare beauty and atmosphere, both monumental and intimate. It is also the church where one academic, novelist and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis was baptised and brought up. St. Mark’s is a traditional Church of Ireland parish providing regular, ordered and dignified worship. It has a first rate choral tradition and also provides variety in worship e.g. family services on the first Sunday of the month.
There are many organisations for old and young, male and female, providing those interested with an opportunity to build up the community in faith.
The ethos of the parish is pastoral – concentrating on worship, teaching, preaching, administration of the sacraments and visiting.
The Future:
In the next five years as in the previous five and the five before we hope to live up to our calling as the new creation where people of all types can encounter the grace and holiness of God. This as always is achieved through God’s gift of Himself in scripture and sacrament rather than through anxious striving or our part.