St Colm's College

St Colm's College was established in Edinburgh in 1894 as a missionary training college for women, with Annie Hunter Small as its first principal.[1]

In India, missions work with high caste women often happened within zenanas (women's quarters)

In August 2010, the College's property would eventually be sold off after the Church of Scotland determined it could no longer afford to maintain it.[2]

Various names

The College was first established in October 1894 as the Women's Missionary Training Institute as part of the Free Church of Scotland. After the Free Church merged with the United Presbyterian Church to form the new United Free Church of Scotland, the College would be renamed as the Women's Missionary College in 1908. Subsequent to this, the United Free Church of Scotland would merge with the Church of Scotland in 1929, and the College would once again be renamed as the Church of Scotland Women's Missionary College. In 1960, the Church of Scotland would rename it St Colm's College. By 1998, it would be renamed St Colm's International House and used as accommodations for students from the majority world.[3][4]

Training

Much of the vision of training at St Colm's was driven by the work of its first principal, Annie Hunter Small, a Scot and a former Zenana missionary worker in India.[5] Teaching for the College brought together a mixture of theoretical and practical skills, and many of the female students enrolled in classes at New College.[4]

Women trained at the College would come from a variety of denominational backgrounds and eventually work in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Jewish communities, but also overseas in Africa, China, and India.[5]

List of teachers at St Colm's

List of students at St Colm's

See also

References
  1. Stewart, Marjorie (1972). Training in mission: St. Colm's College, Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press. ISBN 0715202197.
  2. "Church sells off missionaries' college in bid to save money". Edinburgh Evening News. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  3. "St Colm's College Archive". Mundus. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  4. Wright, David F. (1996). "Elsewhere in Edinburgh: Colleges Newer and Older". In Wright, David F.; Badcock, Gary D. (eds.). Disruption to Diversity: Edinburgh Divinity 1846-1996. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. pp. 255–256. ISBN 9780567085177.
  5. Small, Ann Hunter (1944). The Church of Scotland Women's Missionary College, St. Colm's, Edinburgh: memories of fifty years 1894-1944. Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co.

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