Akwa Ibom State and Qua Iboe church fondly got thier names from the Ibeno River (quo Iboe river) were this church is located adjacent to the Atlantic ocean.. The United Evangelical Church (Founded as Qua Iboe Church) is a Christian denomination in Nigeria. It has existed since 1887.[1] It has more than 1,000 congregations and 2,000,000 members. The church was founded by an Irish missionary, Rev.Samuel Alexander Bill the first of many missionaries who served with The Qua Iboe Mission, now known as Mission Africa, which is based in Belfast. [/b]The Mission and Church were initially named after the place where the mission began its work, at Ibeno near the Qua Iboe River in the present day Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.[b] The church and mission have been entirely independent entities since 1984, but the two continue to work together closely.

The church has its headquarters at Ibeno in Akwa Ibom State. United Evangelical Church is a Bible believing church and does not practice doctrines that do not have any biblical background.

Qua Iboe church is now one of the many tourist site in Ibeno as the play host to alot of tourists year in year out, especially during the festive period..
The portray of the founder of this ancient church and the wife..

Akwa ibom don turn SE abi

Finnese001:
Akwa ibom don turn SE abi

Yes oo.. Before and still today..

What a historic church building.It architectural design was really preserved over the years.

In living memory of Samuel Bill wife...

Racoon:
What a historic church building.It architectural design was really preserved over the years.

Yes oo

More beautiful ancient architecture... External views

Racoon:
What a historic church building.It architectural design was really preserved over the years.

Such building is hard to come by now.

Okay now....

Internal views of this ancient masterpiece

Brief history about Samuel Bill... The founder of this great mission below..

Samuel Alexander Bill (1864 in Belfast – 1942 in Nigeria) was an Irish Christian missionary and the founder of the Qua Iboe Mission (later renamed Mission Africa). Bill was raised in Ballymacarrett Presbyterian Church, east Belfast, but was most notably associated with Island Street Belfast City Mission Hall. His interest in missionary work was sparked by a visit to Belfast by Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey in 1874. He attended the Harley Missionary Training College in London, then under the leadership of Henry Grattan Guinness; and travelled to Nigeria to commence a work amongst the Ibeno people in 1887. The mission base was founded on the banks of the Qua Iboe River, and this base gave the name to the independent interdenominational mission that Bill founded.

Relics of the colonial era

thesicilian:
Relics of the colonial era

Yeah

More notable site in the area are... Pix below

Please you South Southerners should stop pairing us together. We are not the same before some Bini-philic people will use it as an avenue to insult the great Igbo nation and also say that we are dragging their people.
South East is South East (Igbo nation) and South South is South South (Niger Delta).
Change your title to "The oldest church in South South"

I know you put South East there to gain more attention but next time desist from such temptation. We don't need unnecessary insults in this trying time.
Thank you

When white used to attend this ancient church in the 80s...

Which useless oldest church. What then will you call the one in Bonny?

Bkayyy:
Please you South Southerners should stop pairing us together. We are not the same before some Bini-philic people will use it as an avenue to insult the great Igbo nation and also say that we are dragging their people.
South East is South East (Igbo nation) and South South is South South (Niger Delta).
Change your title to "The oldest church in South South"

Am not a sentimental sombori..
To be honest there is nothing as south south my brother

Bkayyy:
I know you put South East there to gain more attention but next time desist from such temptation. We don't need unnecessary insults in this trying time.
Thank you

When we had this church there was nothing as south south my brother

Eastlink:
Which useless oldest church. What then will you call the one in Bonny?

Pls drop your facts and resist talking nonsense ok

By the way the Nigeria in this your advert is missing the "R". You wrote "Nigeia" instead of "Nigeria". Correct it

Bkayyy:
By the way the Nigeria in this your advert is missing the "R". You wrote "Nigeia" instead of "Nigeria". Correct it

OK oo.. Before Lekki toll shooting repeat itself oo

NkanAkpanika:
OK oo.. Before Lekki toll shooting repeat itself oo

Lol

Iboe amaka.

Cc lzaa

Bkayyy:

Lol

imhotep:
Iboe amaka.

Cc lzaa

Yes oo

NkanAkpanika:
Brief history about Samuel Bill... The founder of this great mission below..

Samuel Alexander Bill (1864 in Belfast – 1942 in Nigeria) was an Irish Christian missionary and the founder of the Qua Iboe Mission (later renamed Mission Africa). Bill was raised in Ballymacarrett Presbyterian Church, east Belfast, but was most notably associated with Island Street Belfast City Mission Hall. His interest in missionary work was sparked by a visit to Belfast by Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey in 1874. He attended the Harley Missionary Training College in London, then under the leadership of Henry Grattan Guinness; and travelled to Nigeria to commence a work amongst the Ibeno people in 1887. The mission base was founded on the banks of the Qua Iboe River, and this base gave the name to the independent interdenominational mission that Bill founded.

Great man... This is my grandma church oo

NkanAkpanika:
When white used to attend this ancient church in the 80s...

see achievement

The Church of my birth and the dominant church alongside SDA in Ngwa areas of Abia State.

Very spiritual , organized and sound in biblical doctrines then...I represented my local church at ABA headquarters then during Bible competitions and the feeling of God's presence we feel whenever we go for holy communion which was done mostly in the evening with everyone of us wearing white.... I don't know how it is now in terms of their ways of the old..now that it is United Evangelical Church of Nigeria..my History belongs here