Our Church
St Machar's
our living place of worship
Our church is open 365 days a year. It is a place for prayer and meditation; it is a place of worship with services every Sunday and on high days throughout the year; it hosts concerts which suit all tastes; it is a place of pilgrimage for the 40,000 visitors who each year come to gaze at its astonishing ceiling.
It would be impossible in a Cathedral Church to be narrowly Presbyterian in outlook. In this Cathedral, the building speaks to us of our Celtic origins, the Roman Church, the years of the Reformation and the period of Episcopacy in the 17th century. The congregation of St. Machar’s feels itself to be part of the church catholic and understands Presbyterianism as simply a form of government.
