Gzira

Our Lady of Carmel Parish Church

On the 10th July 1902 some drunken sailors started throwing rocks at a house near the bridge connecting Manoel island to the mainland. One of the stones became stuck between the glass and the image of Our Lady of Carmel in a small niche on the wall of the house. The incident led to the building of a small chapel, which came to be known as the chapel of Our Lady of the Stone. In 1921 Gzira became a parish and the people in the area started building a new church to take the place of the chapel. Dedication date: 23rd May 1959. A chapel for Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was recently opened in a space by the side of the parish church. 

Christ Redeemer

This church was built by Albert Grixti without the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. Permission was given to open the church when it was handed over to the Augustinian Sisters who had opened a school in the vicinity. Nowadays the parish is taking care of it.

Our Lady Star of the Sea

The 'Stella Maris College' which the Christian Brothers had opened in Villa Schinas in 1904 was transferred to a new school built in 1938. Twenty years later the College chapel was open to the people residing in the area. Marriages may be celebrated in it.

St.Anthony Manoel Island

It was built in Grandmaster De Vilhena's time and contains a crypt. The British forces in fort Manoel used it for Catholic services. With the severe hits on the fort from enemy bombing during WWII, only part of this 1723 chapel remained. Around 2008 restorations on the buildings in the fort were started. The crypt was first reconstructed after the surrounding buildings were ready, then the church itself. In the restoration an actual plan of the church was lacking, so old pictures were used with the unknown sculpted areas being left blank and as much as possible of the existing material being used.

St. Monica

A chapel exists in a school of the same name run by nuns.

Bible Baptist church

Started by Maltese-American Joseph Mifsud and his wife Jenny in March 1985, the congregation used to meet in rented premises at the Belleair Lounge in St.Andrews for around 9 years until 1994. After much opposition a building permit was obtained to start a church. Some funds were donated by some American Baptist Churches to purchase a plot of land in Gzira. Most of the work on the outside of the building was completed in 1993. On the 14th April 1994 the first service was held in the church building.

Holy Cross

The old armoury built by the Knights coincidentally in the shape of a British style church was used as an Anglican Chapel within Fort Manoel for service personnel of the Anglican denomination. The fort itself was called HMS Phoenicia by the British while they were running it.