Kingsgate Community Church
Encyclopedia
KingsGate Community Church is a large, contemporary, community focused Christian
church, based in Peterborough
and Cambridge
, England
. Its first service in 1988, held in a house, was attended by just nine people, and today it has a congregation of over 1,600. KingsGate represents people with different backgrounds, all ages and over 50 different nationalities. In 2006, the congregation moved into its new, £7m, 84,000sq ft building, which in addition to meeting rooms, offices, kitchen facilities and children's rooms, contains an auditorium which will eventually seat 1,800 people.. In September 2010, KingsGate launched a new centre in Cambridge, which meets every Sunday at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.
A service from the church was broadcast live on the BBC in May 2009.
Christian
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church, based in Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
and Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, England
England
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. Its first service in 1988, held in a house, was attended by just nine people, and today it has a congregation of over 1,600. KingsGate represents people with different backgrounds, all ages and over 50 different nationalities. In 2006, the congregation moved into its new, £7m, 84,000sq ft building, which in addition to meeting rooms, offices, kitchen facilities and children's rooms, contains an auditorium which will eventually seat 1,800 people.. In September 2010, KingsGate launched a new centre in Cambridge, which meets every Sunday at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.
A service from the church was broadcast live on the BBC in May 2009.