Yeah, but they are so functional. You wouldn't have to install a kitchen. Your own gym is nice. Just give the outside a good paint job and your good to go. Turn the chapel into a movie viewing room. I would love being there. Oh and I would get the best water heater and bath in batism. Oh now I want it!
I was listening to conservative talk radio and they were saying on any given Sunday only 3% of the population in UK is in church. That's staggering if it's true. And the pastor went on that there is so much need for evangelicalism because Europe and Britain is going to Hell, etc. But they are tuning in and getting saved from the radio so there are supposedly many more "Christians" than what's actually in church.
But in america there is more religiosity and we are actually attracting Evangelicals over here from Britain. UK is doomed.
anono this week Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was listening to conservative talk radio and > they were saying on any given Sunday only 3% of > the population in UK is in church. That's > staggering if it's true. And the pastor went on > that there is so much need for evangelicalism > because Europe and Britain is going to Hell, etc. > But they are tuning in and getting saved from the > radio so there are supposedly many more > "Christians" than what's actually in church. > > But in america there is more religiosity and we > are actually attracting Evangelicals over here > from Britain. UK is doomed.
That pretty much is my understanding, and not just the UK, but Europe as a whole.
I think the USA stats are something like 25-33%??? Not positive though
Officially it's 15 % of the population attend church regularly! I can't believe anyone is getting saved from the radio as religious radio program that try to convert people are not allowed in the TV or radio!
There's too much land there to waste on a single business. I'd guess that someone builds condos there, as they did with Congregational and Christian Science churches that closed near me.
The main chapel, which I suppose was the Methodist church long ago, could be remodeled into a two-story condo, with others built around it. It would be a shame to waste the quality construction and sheer massiveness that some older buildings possess.
The following congregations appear to have closed recently: Beith (South of Glasgow) Bletchley Grimsby 2nd Leeds 2nd Newtown Abbey (Belfast) Oban Rotherham Sheffield 4th (Slovak) Sheldon (Birmingham) Wandsworth Common Westcotes (Leicester) Weston Super Mare
Of those, the following were the last congregation at a chapel, i.e. the chapel will now be disused: Beith Newtown Abbey Sheldon
Not surprised that the Beith chapel has closed, there was really only one extended family keeping it going. Glad to see the branches closing near to where I live :D
According to the Birmingham Council of Faiths, the Handsworth chapel was closed and demolished in th 1980s. A new chapel was built on Lordswood Road in Harborne. It appears to be still going.
If you look at maps of the church in Europe, it is mainly an urban church. Very little success in villages. Probably because the wards/branches are planned without reference to public transport for one, and the missionary work falls on foreigners - mostly American.
H Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Britboy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The church in Europe is dying with wards and > > Branches closing all the time! > > > Went past today... its turned into a mosque
Out of the frying pan into the fire. There are signs already that this social engineering is creaking at the seams. But even discussing that is a taboo.
My latest understanding is that closed units/buildings in west Scotland include *Drumchapel Glasgow *Springboig Glasgow *Cathkin Glasgow *Hamilton *Beith *Johnstone
The Thinker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry, > Forgot to mention Oban - a branch with no > designated LDS building
The only unit on the west (mainland) coast of Scotland north of Glasgow! I bet it was run by English people. Native Scots often don't take kindly to that.