Mizpah Mission and Italian Pentecostal Church

Built as the Mizpah mission of the Methodist Church in 1917, worship services were provided to the Italian community in their native language for the better part of a century. It was constructed on land owned by the Plymouth Cordage Company in the heart of what would become Welland’s first Italian community.

Its central square tower with double-stepped buttresses was altered from its original construction by adding a gable roof. Modest decorative detailing is provided by Italianate arched windows capped by brick voussoirs with exaggerated concrete keystones. The interior still retains its original pews and patterned tin ceiling.