St Columba's Church in Hopehill Road is a splendid example of the early work of Jack Coia. It is situated just 500 metres along Garscube Road from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Queen's Cross Church.

St Columba’s parish dates from 1906, with the present church being built between 1937 and 1941. On Good Friday, 26 March 1937, Father Denis Flynn submitted an application for a new church in Hopehill Road. Jack Coia was working on the highly acclaimed Catholic Pavilion for the 1938 Empire Exhibition when Gillespie, Kidd & Coia were commissioned to design the new church. It was paid for before it was completed, with the parishioners buying the bricks at a cost of sixpence each.
The church was still under under construction at the start of World War II in 1939. In 1941, permission was granted to complete the building work. It is the only church to have been erected in Glasgow during the war, in which 31 young men of the parish were listed as losing their lives.

The nave of the church was formed from a series of reinforced concrete portals, around which the rest of the church was constructed. The frame is infilled with glass and brick topped by a steep mansard roof finished with interlocking tiles.
The Stations of the Cross, which were created by Hugh Adam Crawford, originally featured in the Empire Exhibition of 1938 at Bellahouston Park.
In the sanctuary, behind the altar, there is a marble reredos and a carved crucifix by sculptor, Benno Schotz, who was Head of Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art from 1938 until his retirement in 1961.

View from altar, looking to mural of the life of St Columba by Terry Meechan