Our Congregational life began in 1898 when the Rector of St. Ninian's Pollokshields, The Very Reverend Dean M.B. Hutchison, opened a tiny Mission Church in a rented shop in the Kilmarnock Road, near the McQuiston Bridge. The first Service was held on the eve of St. Margaret's Day, 15th November 1898, and was attended by thirty people. Thereafter Services were regularly maintained during the ten years that the Mission was dependent upon St. Ninian's.

Then followed a great transformation, for Mr. R. A. Ogg, of Taybank, Langside, and one of the founders of St. Ninian's, made an offer to the Dean to build a Church Hall and Vestries at his own expense on a site gifted by Sir John Stirling Maxwell of Pollok, on the condition that St. Margaret's became an Independent Charge and that the Reverend E.J. Petric. then Rector of St. John's Church, New Pitsligo, be appointed its first Incumbent.

The Hall and Vestries were duly built and furnished, and on the eve of St. Margaret's Day 1908 the Hall was opened and dedicated by the Bishop, The Right Reverend Archibald Ean Campbell, who preached the first sermon, and licensed the Reverend E.J. Petric as the first Priest-in-Charge of the newly constituted Independent Charge.

On 7th February 191 1, St. Margaret's was made an Incumbency, and the Priest-in-Charge, the Reverend E.J. Petrie, instituted as Rector.

The building of the Church began on 7th June 19 11 when Miss Elizabeth Ogg cut the first turf. The foundation stone was laid on 11th November 1911 by Mr. R.A. Ogg, eldest son of the donor of the Hall. The Nave and the lower portion of the Tower were completed and dedicated on 23rd November 1912. The Choir and Sanctuary were added and dedicated on 17th November 1923, and the whole Church was consecrated on Christmas Day 1928, being entirely free of debt. The Tower was constructed in 1935, as a memorial to Canon Petric, the first Rector, who had served the Congregation for twenty-five years.

As she now stands, in all her glory, St. Margaret's is the largest Episcopal Church to be built in Scotland in the twentieth century, and is a marvellous testimonial to the faith, courage, and generosity of our forebears.