# St. John's Anglican Church

Anglican church in Elora, Ontario.

Source: https://elora.church/churches/st-johns-anglican/
Last verified: 2026-09-16

## Service times
- Sunday 8:00 a.m. (Holy Communion (BCP), said)
- Sunday 9:00 a.m. (Holy Eucharist (BAS))
- Sunday 11:00 a.m. (Choral Communion (BCP) on 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays; Choral Matins (BCP) on 2nd and 4th)
- Wednesday 10:00 a.m. (Holy Communion (BCP))

Choral Evensong is usually sung at 4:00 p.m. on the last Sunday of the month from September to November and January to May, and Choral Compline at 8:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday from October to December and February to June. Christian Meditation meets Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. in the Parish Centre.

## Address
36 Henderson Street, Elora, ON N0B 1S0

## Contact
- Phone: 519-846-5911
- Website: https://www.stjohnselora.ca
- Email: parish.stjohnselora@gmail.com
- Affiliation: Anglican Diocese of Niagara

## Accessibility
- Two accessible washrooms in St John's Commons

## What they believe
St. John's describes itself as a Christian community within the Anglican tradition with a strong history of liturgical worship and choral music, offering 'ourselves, our souls and bodies' to foster faith in Jesus Christ. Its four priorities are to proclaim the love of Christ, to engage and involve people, musical outreach, and open doors.

## What to expect
Services use the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and the Book of Alternative Services (BAS). The 9:00 a.m. Eucharist has a volunteer choir on alternate weeks, and the 11:00 a.m. service is sung by the Parish Choir, alternating between Choral Communion and Choral Matins.

## About this congregation
The Parish of St. John the Evangelist was formed in 1830, and its first Elora church was built in 1842 at the south end of the village. The present church, at the northeast corner of Henderson and Smith Streets, was built in 1875 to replace it: a one-storey red brick building in the Gothic Revival style designed by architect Henry Langley, with buttresses, vaulted arches, steeply pitched gable roofs, cast iron rooftop cresting and stained glass. The parish holds a communion set reportedly donated by Florence Nightingale to its rector of 1852–1857, and the Elora Festival was founded in the church in 1979.

St. John's is known for its choral work; it maintains volunteer and parish choirs, a Compline choir, an organ program and a concert series, and its 2021 visioning process named musical outreach as one of four priorities. The Open Doors project added St John's Commons with a commercial kitchen and two accessible washrooms. The parish belongs to the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Niagara.

## About this listing
Part of Elora.church. These listings cover every congregation in Elora and Salem.
Checked against: stjohnselora.ca (retrieved 2026-09-16); historicplaces.ca (retrieved 2026-09-16); centrewellington.ca (retrieved 2026-09-16).
What Anglican churches believe: https://elora.church/denominations/anglican/