10/20/2026
WHAT HAPPENED?: Bethany Church, also known as Bethany Chapel, was a striking Venetian Gothic building located at the northeast corner of University Avenue and Christopher Street in Toronto.
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Designed by architect Henry Simpson in 1892, the church was completed around 1893 but stood for less than two decades before being demolished in 1910.
Christopher Street was once a residential street near University Avenue and College Street, but it eventually disappeared as Toronto General Hospital expanded throughout the area.
Today, both the church and Christopher Street are gone, their former locations absorbed into Toronto’s Discovery District and surrounding hospital facilities.
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