Elim Pentecostal Church, 12 And 13 Casselbank Street, Edinburgh

Elim Pentecostal Church, located at 12 and 13 Casselbank Street in Edinburgh, was designed by George Beattie and Son in 1885 and later heightened by George Craig in 1894. This three-storey and attic corner building features three bays and incorporates some Moorish architectural details. Originally constructed as Turkish baths, it was converted into a cinema in 1920 and has been occupied by Destiny Church since 2007. The building is made of cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with polished dressings, and includes a base course, cill courses at the first and second floors, bracketed cills, an ashlar eaves band, architraved windows, and horseshoe-arched openings on the ground floor of the main elevation.

On the northeast (front) elevation, there is a corniced and pilastered doorway at the center, flanked by two smaller windows. The pilasters feature panels of stylised Moorish motifs, and the cornice has stylised brackets. The distinctively panelled door is accompanied by a plate glass fanlight. Above, there is a window at the first floor and a bipartite window at the second floor. The wallhead breaks the eaves in a pediment with a half-moon finial, and there is a horseshoe-surround to a porthole window, flanked by short pilasters topped with wallhead stacks. The left bay has a chamfered corner at the ground floor with a window that has chamfered reveals, and canted angle windows above at the first and second floors, topped with a small leaded onion dome. The right bay has a ground floor window, with canted angle windows and a dome similar to the left bay.

The southeast elevation is part-rendered with irregularly spaced windows and a secondary doorway, along with a wallhead stack.

The building features timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing and a slate roof, along with three wallhead stacks, including one on the northwest side.

Inside, as seen in 2007, the church has an impressive white-painted open auditorium with intricately detailed plasterwork. There is a gallery at the rear with floral design plasterwork on the balcony front, and a glass and timber screen below. The walls feature pilastered round-arched blind arcading with carved plaster capitals adorned with angel heads. A proscenium arch leads to a rare plaster screen on one wall, which includes a central Baroque cartouche. Some late 20th century alterations have been made.