Lynden United Church Office

Celebrating 175 years of church services in Troy 1835 - 2010by Elizabeth Nowell.As you travel east from St. George on Highweay 5 through the hilly countryside around the village of Troy, you will pass the back of Mount Carmel United Church erected 137 years ago in 1873.If you veer off to the south to the old Troy Road, you can see the front of the church - a large white brick edifice with red brick trim in an Italianate styles. The high wooden spires were recently covered with copper sheeting. Try to imagine the building of this church long before Highway 5 was constructed in 1930 and had bypassed the village.