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The story behind Robert Raikes' Sunday school. Robert was a pioneer of the Sunday school movement, although he did not start the first Sunday School.Some already existed such as that founded by Hannah Ball in High Wycombe, or the one founded in 1751 in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham which is the first documented known case.
The Big Sunday School had 1,127 boys and 1,324 girls on its books when it opened. The building is now known as The Old Sunday School and is part of Macclesfield Museums. Sunday schools were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children on their one-day off from the factory. [2]
Sunday school at a Baptist church in Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky in the United States, 1946. In New England a Sunday school system was first begun by Samuel Slater in his textile mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the 1790s. [43] In the mid-1860s philanthropist Lewis Miller was the inventor of the "Akron Plan" for Sunday schools.
The Stockport Sunday School is a Sunday school in Stockport, Cheshire, England. Founded in 1784, it had become the largest Sunday school in the world by 1859. [ 1 ] The original school was situated on London Square, Wellington Street, Stockport , behind the town hall.
The Upper Brook Street Chapel, also known as the Unitarian Chapel, the Welsh Baptist Chapel, and later Islamic Academy, is a former chapel of historical architectural importance with an attached Sunday School, located on the east side of Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Greater Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom.
St Mary's pioneered Sunday School education for those children unable to attend a day school. Pupils were taught reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as religious knowledge. The first Sunday School was opened in 1751, 35 years before the generally acknowledged first Sunday School was founded in Gloucester by Robert Raikes. [13] [14]
Outreaches included opening-air singing and playing hymns along the local residential streets while carrying around the heavy church organ for music. There were regular open air outreaches every Sunday afternoon and evening for many years. [2] In 1947, the work was connected with the Free Church movement which was of the Plymouth Brethren ...
The front of the plinth reads: ROBERT RAIKES/ FOUNDER OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS/ 1780/ THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED/ UNDER THE DIRECTION/ OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION/ BY CONTRIBUTIONS/ FROM TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS/ OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN GREAT BRITAIN/ JULY 1880. An inscription below the figure's right foot reads: THOS BROCK SCULPT/ LONDON. 1880. [3]