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Church building
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. The congregation is associated with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada.
The congregation traces its history in Amherst to 1809. The current church building is a large red sandstone structure built in 1895. The building was designed by architect Harry H. Mott and built by Rhodes, Curry Co., with sandstone sourced from the Amherst Red Stone Quarry, which operated from 1889 to 1914.