The Exchange was built in 1769 as a single-storey, arcaded Market House funded by a donation of £4000 from the Earl of Donegall as a celebration of the birth of his son, George Augustus. In 1776, again at the request…
Arthur Square is named after Arthur Chichester, the founding father of Belfast. Chichester obtained a charter to establish Belfast as a corporation, or town, from British King James in 1613. The site was originally known as the corn market and…
The Greenville Hall Synagogue, located on Annesley Street, opened in 1904. It was the second synagogue in Belfast, the first being on Great Victoria Street. The Greenville Hall building was constructed when there were around 700 Jews resident in Belfast.…
The Whitla Hall was opened in 1949 and was named after Sir William Whitla Hall. It is a meeting hall and lecture theatre at Queen’s University Belfast. Whitla was a prominent Belfast doctor, lecturer, MP for the University and Methodist.…
Union Theological College is the theological and ministerial training college for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. It was founded in 1853 and built in a Renaissance Revival style with a grand Doric porch and Baroque attic. The building was designed…
The SSE Arena, Belfast is owned by the Odyssey Trust Company (SSE Odyssey to left of image below). The complex originated in 1992 and opened in December 2000. The complex consists of: a multipurpose arena, science centre and shopping centre.…
The University started life in 1845 as the Queen’s College, Belfast and opened its doors to students in 1849. At its opening, it had 23 professors and 195 students. It was established to provide higher education for Catholics and Presbyterians…
This memorial commemorates the employees and students of Queen’s University Belfast who were killed or missing in World War I (253 names) and World War II (155 names). It is located in front of the Lanyon Building at Queen’s University…
The Queen’s Film Theatre (QFT) is an independent cinema in University Street, opposite Queen’s University Belfast. It was founded in 1968 and now is an important venue for events such as the Belfast Festival at Queen’s, the Belfast Film Festival…
The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that keep apart predominantly republican and nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from mostly loyalist and unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. Although temporary peace walls were built in Belfast in…
