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…
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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…
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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.…
ByadminThe 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.…
ByadminUnion 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…
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