St. Stephen's Hungarian Church
Tupper Street and Lingan Road
Little is known about St. Stephen's Hungarian Church, and there is no known visual record of the building that housed it. Long since disappeared except for oral history and a 1914 City Directory reference to a "Hungarian" church at 176 Tupper Street, St. Stephen's Church might also be considered part of the Social Gospel. The Minister for St. Stephen's was a Presbyterian Missionary, Reverend M. A. C. Kinsale, who spoke Hungarian and reputedly came to Cape Breton from Montreal and the United States. He had a great deal of sympathy for the economic and living conditions of the European immigrants and he wrote frequently on this topic in Presbyterian publications.
The building which housed St. Stephen's was a wood-frame structure with a gable roof and pointed windows. One former parishioner recalls sitting as a child in chairs at the front of the church while the adults used regular pews. The church probably ceased its functions with the loss of its pastor during World War I. The building was later used as the UNIA Hall and was demolished in the 1940s.