On September 23, 1815 a Scotsmen bought an unfinished church building from the Dutch.
The first minister was Rev Archibald Brown, who arrived in September 1816.
By 1861 it absorbed the remnants of the Nederduitch Hervormde Kerk in Guyana.
In 1945 a capital sum was paid to the presbytery and the church ceased its financial aid.
In 1967 the Church of Scotland dissolved the Presbytery and it became an autonomous denomination.