The original Catholic congregation was about 100 people.

The fledgling church grew and soon multiple churches developed from the original congregation.

Around 850, he came back to Birka, where the original congregation had been shattered.

William Sturch, theological writer, was one of the original congregation.

The original congregation was established in the 1840s.

The original congregation numbered about 100 members, who met in a rented hall.

The original congregation was small and faced hard financial times as they struggled to keep a parson.

The church's original congregation came from Holland in the mide 1850's.

The original congregation here dates to 1707; the current structure was built in 1858.

It looked like a small cathedral, at least a hundred years old and no doubt abandoned by its original congregation.