St Mary of Debre Tsion, Battersea


St Mary of Debre Tsion, Battersea is a church in Battersea, London.

History

The church, which was designed by Sir James Knowles for the Park Town Estate and built by Colls & Sons, opened as St Philip's Church in 1870. It amalgamated with the parish of St Bartholomew, Wickersley Road, at St Philip's Church in 1972 and then amalgamated with Lavender Hill, The Ascension at Lavender Hill, The Ascension in 2000.
The church was rented out to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from the early 2000s, declared redundant by the Church of England in 2007 and acquired by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in 2010. It was renamed St Mary of Debre Tsion, Battersea after the Monastery of Mount Zion, located on Tulu Gudo Island on Lake Zway in Ethiopia.