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Ward closed last year, for sale this year!

ward houses are so BUTT UGLY

Used to be a Methodist church converted into a Mormon chapel in the 1970s

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 want to buy it if I had the money. I would turn it into a brew-pub.

great idea..

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:
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> 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!

I don't have the same takeaway from this.

"on any given Sunday only 3% of the population in UK is in church"

Why does this matter? After all, we know that just going to church doesn't make you a good person...

I say well done UK! Good sense has finally arrived!

Tom in Paris
(formerly from the parish of Horsell in Surrey ;-)

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.

Looks like a spire on the tower, I venture to guess it was a cross when the Methodist had it.

The LDS was trying to figure out how to get Moroni up there.

The cross was cut off when the church was changed into a Mormon chapel! The locals were not happy!

I am glad you told us it is a spire. I thought it was a dipole radio antenna.

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

I know at least two empty chapels in Scotland. Johnstone and Hamilton!

One of the Glasgow wards Springboig also closed!

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

I thought the "Area Authorities" lived in Solihull. Many of the mormon bigwigs are or used to be in this area, had gone to church here?

There is a chapel in Solihull, at SP160796

Wonder if there's any historic landmark value to it?

It says a charitable organization is occupying it currently, so unable to give a concise property value.

The Mormon church is that charity!

Whatever happened to the Handsworth Ward?

I looked on LDS church site and can't see a ward anywhere near handsworth! Did you know the address?

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.

I know one of the Birmingham chapels built in the 1930s is now a mosque!

The Handsworth chapel I just found was at 23 Booth street . It is now an Islamic centre!

Britboy Wrote:
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> I know one of the Birmingham chapels built in the
> 1930s is now a mosque!

Europe is being rapidly Islamicized, but no one wants to talk about it. How exactly the SJWs want to square rhat with promiscuity and feminism...

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.

the building is only available because THE (MORmON) church is growing so rapidly ....that they had to give it up.

I can only say that I'm very happy that Britain is moving away from Mormonism.

The church in Europe is dying with wards and Branches closing all the time!

Britboy Wrote:
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> The church in Europe is dying with wards and
> Branches closing all the time!


Went past today... its turned into a mosque

H Wrote:
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> Britboy Wrote:
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> > 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.

I would love to own a former wardhouse.

My latest understanding is that closed units/buildings in west Scotland include
*Drumchapel Glasgow
*Springboig Glasgow
*Cathkin Glasgow
*Hamilton
*Beith
*Johnstone

Sorry,
Forgot to mention Oban - a branch with no designated LDS building

The Thinker Wrote:
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> 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.

Not necessarily so Jordan my good friend....I live in Scotland....how about you ??