It all began in a room at 15 College Square East, Belfast, in 1926, to combat German Rationalism and Modernism. As the work grew the manager, Rev. WJ Grier, sourced Reformed books from USA and when they became hard to procure during and after the war, the shop grew as a distribution hub for the United Kingdom. In the mid-20th century, before the advent of publishers like The Banner of Truth, the shop provided support for men in all denominations who treasured the reformed faith. Although severely damaged twice during the Northern Ireland 'troubles' the shop continued to operate.
Today, an extensive and competitively priced stock, including children's books, and a large second-hand department, are available in our Belfast shop.
In October 2019 seeing a, sadly, desperately growing need for confessional and evangelistic resources we opened our Edinburgh shop. Just like our Belfast location our store in the Scottish capital boasts a large range of competitively priced books, including children's books, and a smaller (but not-insignificant) second-hand department.
As a vital part of our commitment to meet the current needs of the wider church, we are also providers of conference bookstalls throughout the British Isles and of bookstalls for our local churches.
The Trustees, managers and staff have a clear vision to provide Christian resources which accord with the Westminster standards. "By Honour and Dishonour - the Story of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church", published in 2016, gives a fuller picture of our history and development.
We hope to benefit ministers, teachers, leaders, and congregations by providing access to Christian resources which are biblically faithful, Christ-honouring, and of theological and practical benefit to the Church and her members.
In order to achieve this objective, we offer Bibles along with books that are in accordance with the confessions of the Reformation. Our resources will not only feed the intellect, but stir up godly thoughts and affections. Therefore, we stock numerous Bibles and an extensive range of resources from consistently evangelical publishers, such as:
- Banner of Truth
- Christian Focus Publications
- Crossway
- Evangelical Press
- Good Book Company
- IVP
- Matthias Media
- Presbyterian and Reformed
- Reformation Heritage Books
- Reformation Trust
- Soli Deo Gloria
- along with selected orthodox titles from other major UK and US publishers.
We also provide a range of resources for teaching Sunday Schools, magazines such as Evangelicals Now, Evangelical Times, Banner of Truth, and devotional and daily reading materials.
We operate two physical locations, The Evangelical Book Shop in Belfast, Northern Ireland and The Evangelical Book Shop (Previously Mound Books) in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Evangelical Book Shop is an incorporated charity, reference NIC100560. Our VAT number is 253004800.