Find out more info here: stethelburgas.org. The spaces can be hired out for peaceful events and weddings etc with the money going back into the maintenance of this historic building
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There is an even smaller one in Dover, ST Edmonds. It was nearly pulled down, was also used as a blacksmith’s. It was a chapel for pilgrims making their way to Canterbury cathedral, some didn’t make it and were given their funeral in this chapel. I renewed my wedding vows in this chapel a few years ago and it was very beautiful. It was said to be the first wedding recorded at this chapel.
@@bernadettekavanagh9984 Thankfully I have managed to get myself out of Dover since than and I’m happily settled in a much better place. Dover has a rich history but the place has gone downhill and is now unrecognisable to its once proud and decent days.
So some little known trivia about the place. Before the bombing there was an Eagle Scout project to restore the finish on the pews using the original ancient formula. Sadly the Bishopsgate bombing destroyed the work. (The American School In London had a Boy Scout Troop associated with it which was part of the US scouting system)
It's fairly telling-and should be a challenge to Anglicans in London-that post-explosion, the church didn't return to worship there, and that a "center for reconciliation and peace" took its place, as though a church wouldn't be a center for reconciliation and peace.
@@ChaniKynes-xc8qi What didn't work on me? The explosion dissuading my participation in the Christian faith, or that I'd be compelled somehow to see Islam as reconciling and peaceful? Also, "hate." Definitions matter. Though, I'll absolutely admit there are plenty of Christians who act more out of fear than love.
Couldn’t agree with you more @AndrewKendall71. Sad that so called ‘liberals’ (who are anything but in reality) see freedom of worship as something to be denigrated and denied; as the laicisation of this church proves. Where there is love, they choose to see nothing but hate. As Christ Himself said; “If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.”
@@Fred-wb5nzEven as someone who has spent much energy deploring the 1000 years of English maltreatment of the Irish, I am still in agreement with the writer's condemnation.
That’s nice, I bet in Mecca or Medina they have a Protestant church too to teach people good will and understanding… and it’s obviously working big time.
I used to gp there in the 1980's. There was an old priest that used to offer the Tridentine Mass without server. Some busybody in the foyer tried to stop me entering the church telling me it was a private Mass with no congregation. This was before the days of Pope Benedicts indult.
@@SanteeNellie True. It did thanks to Cardinal Heenan. But it was only granted occasionally to groups like the Latin Mass Society and a few elderly priests who wanted to continue using the Tridentine Rite. It was by no means on-demand. I was refused my polite requests three times by three different Bishops. Cardinal Hume was one of them.
Oh no, a former church set to be torn down, has been turned into a place promoting peace! 😱 And it allows people of all religions in there to worship?! SOMEONE CALL THE MORAL POLICE!
Yes, because all religions are welcome in this country, not just your favourite one. The most popular census response is atheist, so even though we are a "Christian country" in title, we are not any where near Christian overall anymore. I've met far more Muslims than Christians in my life time living here. It's within their rights to have places of worship, whether that building used to be a Christian Church or not
It's a similar story to the Gedächtniskirche in Hamburg and the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial in Berlin. They wanted to tear them down but they were kept as memorials instead.
@@citizen1163 I guess you are referring to changes? London, like most big cities is always changing. If that is what you are referring to then no, London is NOT leaving me!🤨
A bedouin tent as reaction on 9-11? so kinda like having a Lederhosen exhibtion as a reaction on de Luftwaffe bombing London during the Battle of Britain?
The bedouin had nothing to do with the IRA, WWII, churches or 911. Lederhosen are a Bavarian outfit, not anything to do with the Luftwaffe or WWII or 911 or the IRA. I think you are drawing parallels where there are none.
This reminds me of our remarkable St. Paul's Chapel (lower Manhattan, NYC, USA) which survived The Great Fire of 1776 (Revolutionary War) as well as 9/11 (directly across street - where all of the First Responders would go to relax, get water, food, massages, etc. The cemetery behind it was completely blackened and covered with ashes and its fence walls were covered by posters of missing people for months. Still there and a wonderful piece of history if you ever visit NYC! It's half 9/11 memorial (not to be confused with the formal one) and half church.
It's such a lovely, tranquil venue! I went there once to hear Baluji Shrivastav perform, ages ago. Definitely need to visit it again! Thank you for featuring this wonderful building on your channel.
Christianity is declining in Britain, as is having any faith in general. I agree though that it is sad to see historic buildings lay empty, they could definitely be given a new purpose!
Lol, I literally attended a wedding here last weekend. Super lovely venue, great having a few drinks out back in a tent bookended on all sides by skyscrapers. Plus they let me ring the bell!
Yes I agree and what's more I don't believe they couldn't have fully restored it to what it was like before the bombing. Too many of the remaining churches in the city are under threat of "redundancy". Considering the background of the current Archbishop of Canterbury you would also have thought he could use that previous experience with his former colleagues to raise funds to repair and keep them open.
@@wattyler2994that is an incorrect and inappropriate representation of what has been created. We need more such places, thinking and action. Open minds
Who is they? You did hear the part about the IRA blowing it up, right? Seems like dedicating its mission to reconciliation is pretty fitting... One might even call it very Christian.
@@howtubeablelots of empty churches in the UK, most are falling down or being turned into houses. What is wrong with the purpose this one has been put to?
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy & Reconciliation) Act 2023. A cowardly piece of legislation to protect British politicians and military personnel from being held responsible for criminal actions.
@@sodapop8368 Sinn Fein and the IRA are too busy these days fighting actual Irish people who don't support the third world colonisation going on over there.
Only people convicted of crimes and it was early release, not pardons. That’s why British soldiers aren’t covered, because they were never tried for their crimes.
I had a birthday event there a few years ago. Loved it, especially when we all gathered in the tent when it rained. It was August in London so no surprise.
Its ok to destroy British history guys because @@ChuffedLemon says its an "areligious and nondenominational" islamic center... Now go to an islamic country and ask for a mosque to be converted to a "areligious and nondenominational" church, see how long you last.
Peoples comments about Muslims and the Irish prove why we NEED organisations that bring peace between different groups such as the one that's based in this church
I remember being struck by this little church nestled right next to the huge skyscraper. I also remember learning that it was a centre for reconciliation, but I didn't know it had a beduin building at the back! I would love to visit the centre now.
Nah. I'm British and while I'll stand by the quality of our history, we have fair match ups with Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, India, China, and Japan.
@@WolfbloodJakeWilliams Certainly true in terms of it's ancient nature. Obviously you'd add the likes of Egypt to that too. I think ours is the most interesting and beautiful though.
I promise you, when the time comes, they won't return the favor. The barbarians aren't at the gates. You let them in and put them on benefits. You bloody fools.
@@chriss4432 it isnt, though? It's an abandoned church, so it'll still have a rich history attached to it, simply because of it's age and location. Having it be a center for (amongst other things) peace is, in my opinion, just another piece of history in the making, and a very noble value to instill in a building, which has been tied to an institution that historically hasnt been very peaceful and loving
I find it ironic that this comment section is the exact opposite of the values that the nonprofit is based on: building relationships across divisions of conflict and culture.
I used to walk past the church in 2013 when I was working on a building site near it.i used to think who would bother going to this little old church .
So sad to see the spirit of this country being vacant and towered over by sky scrapers. Goes to show the thing we value most is money and ego over morality and ethics.
I just said this place is doing that . The world is another matter entirely. I’m not a religious person, was once, not anymore. It was nice to see one place trying to be the change, we all need.
Thus kinda reminds me of a very similar sized blue church in Tenerife. Cant remember for the life of me where in Tenerife it is, but it was there 13 years ago.
I love these city churches there's quite a few that survived the blitz and the great fire like St marry axe its close to the gherkin. In the space of a few yards you have a medieval church a 21st century steel and glass tower victorian and Georgian architecture this is one of the things I love about London you are walking through history I can spend a whole day wandering around the city just looking at churches and buildings there are many other churches designed by Christopher wren and Nicholas Hawksmore One of my favourite places is St Dunstan's in the east on Eastcheap its an Oasis of calm and peace in the heart of the hectic city of London it's one of my favourite places to just sit and have a coffee there's another on the corner of Newgate Street. I've been to Paris ,Rome and Athens but I find walking around London more interesting than any of them. I've been here 73 years but I'm still discovering hidden gems
You know, maybe you should try to learn about the history of a place or it's current settings before having an upset little rant. They didn't 'add islam' and it's curious that islam is the only religion you'd bring up in a centre used by people of any faith. Would you have preferred it if they'd reinstated the shops that occupied the front of the building for centuries?
Thats nice but eastern architecture isn't described by a bedouin tent. That's just an insult to 1400 years developing exquisite and complex architectural techniques and styles exemplified in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Isfahan, Istanbul, Tunis, Fez, Andalusia etc.
It's a church, you can tell by the way it looks and by its former use. If it was turned into flats or used as a shop *again* it would still be a church. This church is more of a church than the majority of other churches that have been abandoned, this one is still owned by the church. You're just obviously not from the UK.
Find out more info here: stethelburgas.org. The spaces can be hired out for peaceful events and weddings etc with the money going back into the maintenance of this historic building
I'd love to see the Muslims put up a little wendy house church in one of their mosques......
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I can imagine the acoustics would be great for classical concerts
I worked on the Restoration of this Church.
Guess what no one gives a flying fuck
Wow that must have been amazing! What did you get to do?
what's the japanese / burman connection ? !
Nice! Well done!
It’s a shame it’s lost all its English heritage now though.
Cool.
There is an even smaller one in Dover, ST Edmonds. It was nearly pulled down, was also used as a blacksmith’s.
It was a chapel for pilgrims making their way to Canterbury cathedral, some didn’t make it and were given their funeral in this chapel.
I renewed my wedding vows in this chapel a few years ago and it was very beautiful.
It was said to be the first wedding recorded at this chapel.
How about doing a RUclips video for it.?
@@bernadettekavanagh9984 Thankfully I have managed to get myself out of Dover since than and I’m happily settled in a much better place. Dover has a rich history but the place has gone downhill and is now unrecognisable to its once proud and decent days.
@Bedmoments I can't imagine living in Pakistan in the first place
@@longiusaescius2537
Another racist
@@longiusaescius2537 stop being a racist prick.
Used to pass this church regularly when I lived in London. Thanks for fantastic nuggets of history and information.
So some little known trivia about the place. Before the bombing there was an Eagle Scout project to restore the finish on the pews using the original ancient formula. Sadly the Bishopsgate bombing destroyed the work. (The American School In London had a Boy Scout Troop associated with it which was part of the US scouting system)
It's fairly telling-and should be a challenge to Anglicans in London-that post-explosion, the church didn't return to worship there, and that a "center for reconciliation and peace" took its place, as though a church wouldn't be a center for reconciliation and peace.
It clearly didn't work on you, though Andrew. No hate like Christian love.
@@ChaniKynes-xc8qi What didn't work on me? The explosion dissuading my participation in the Christian faith, or that I'd be compelled somehow to see Islam as reconciling and peaceful? Also, "hate." Definitions matter. Though, I'll absolutely admit there are plenty of Christians who act more out of fear than love.
Couldn’t agree with you more @AndrewKendall71. Sad that so called ‘liberals’ (who are anything but in reality) see freedom of worship as something to be denigrated and denied; as the laicisation of this church proves. Where there is love, they choose to see nothing but hate. As Christ Himself said; “If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.”
There was barely anyone attending it. It's better served as a centre for reconciliation and peace - a very important idea in our time.
@@sonwig5186 I figure barely anyone attended in the end. I'm just saying a church *should* have been a thriving source of reconciliation and peace.
How unutterably sad that the IRA would trash this ANCIENT and venerable place of worship. What monsters.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
However, this is a result of more than a century of extreme oppression.
@@Fred-wb5nzfair enough but it is still a shame.
But who actual built it......
@@Fred-wb5nz yes, indeed. An eye for an eye, two wrongs make a right!
@@Fred-wb5nzEven as someone who has spent much energy deploring the 1000 years of English maltreatment of the Irish, I am still in agreement with the writer's condemnation.
A Bedouin tent in response to 9/11? How does that make sense?
It seems this beautiful church is continuing to turn the other cheek…. And then it will become a mosque.
Anything goes 'Church' .
These leftards are so fucked up… according to them, if you don’t do that you are thinking all Muslims are terrorists 🤷♂️
@@Kualabear02 It looks ridiculously out of place.
Not good
That’s nice, I bet in Mecca or Medina they have a Protestant church too to teach people good will and understanding… and it’s obviously working big time.
And thus not all cultures/religions are equal. Well-said.
Oh come the fuck on, all the muslims I know are really nice. Can you not spread this divisive rubbish, its as bad for this country as anything else.
I used to gp there in the 1980's. There was an old priest that used to offer the Tridentine Mass without server. Some busybody in the foyer tried to stop me entering the church telling me it was a private Mass with no congregation. This was before the days of Pope Benedicts indult.
England had an indult before pope Benedict gave one for the whole church 😊
@@SanteeNellie True. It did thanks to Cardinal Heenan. But it was only granted occasionally to groups like the Latin Mass Society and a few elderly priests who wanted to continue using the Tridentine Rite. It was by no means on-demand. I was refused my polite requests three times by three different Bishops. Cardinal Hume was one of them.
Then you have to wonder why the IRA would target that particular church at all. It seems they do not see the Catholics in England as brothers.
@@mmyr8ado.360 because the IRA are violent psychos looking for an excuse.
@@mmyr8ado.360 Apparently they meant to target the Stock Exchange, but they got spooked by a cop and hid the bomb in the church.
Bedouin tent -with prayer mats for islamic prayers? In a former church!!!!
You answered yourself. It’s a former church.
Oh shut up. The mayor will make them all have a reserved room for bumintheair worship soon. Get used to it. 😂
Oh no, a former church set to be torn down, has been turned into a place promoting peace! 😱 And it allows people of all religions in there to worship?! SOMEONE CALL THE MORAL POLICE!
@@NoMan-pp1jq A Symbol of the Islamic Conquest of England.
Yes, because all religions are welcome in this country, not just your favourite one. The most popular census response is atheist, so even though we are a "Christian country" in title, we are not any where near Christian overall anymore. I've met far more Muslims than Christians in my life time living here. It's within their rights to have places of worship, whether that building used to be a Christian Church or not
The "bedouin tent" looks more like a classic yurt.
As someone who has been in a real Bedouin tent village in Jordan, you are entirely correct
It is a classic yurt.
@@stefanleonardo9734 why?
Either way I’m glad the building is being used for such a deeply compassionate purpose as cultural reconciliation. ❤
@@stefanleonardo9734 It has every right to be there
Sad to hear they couldn't restore it back to being a church
The Church of England decided to change it to a 'center for peace and reconciliation '. This area of London is not really populated out of work hours.
@logwhitley Not entirely true. They actually wanted to demolish it. It was public outcry that saved it.
@@localforeigner9528 what is untrue?
@@wisdumbteethI hope you're going to be that cocky on Judgement Day ...
It's a similar story to the Gedächtniskirche in Hamburg and the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial in Berlin. They wanted to tear them down but they were kept as memorials instead.
I love this part of London. So pretty and so many stories to discover!
I live just north of here - I will never leave London!
@@sparagmos4748 Wait till diversity reaches you.
@@sparagmos4748 You might not leave London but is 'London' leaving you?
@@citizen1163 I guess you are referring to changes? London, like most big cities is always changing.
If that is what you are referring to then no, London is NOT leaving me!🤨
@@sparagmos4748 My multi ethnic London family been in London for many many generations BUT since Blair opened borders the influx is unsustainable.
A bedouin tent as reaction on 9-11? so kinda like having a Lederhosen exhibtion as a reaction on de Luftwaffe bombing London during the Battle of Britain?
Yes that is..... bizarre lol
The bedouin had nothing to do with the IRA, WWII, churches or 911.
Lederhosen are a Bavarian outfit, not anything to do with the Luftwaffe or WWII or 911 or the IRA.
I think you are drawing parallels where there are none.
Why do you feel the need to make everything so divisive
@@angrytedtalks so it is a great comparison
@@nicholasc.5944 Why do you feel the need to act dumb, or is that just natural
I love how it says "peace" on the door inside
isn't the "beduin tent" actually a mongolic yurt?
This reminds me of our remarkable St. Paul's Chapel (lower Manhattan, NYC, USA) which survived The Great Fire of 1776 (Revolutionary War) as well as 9/11 (directly across street - where all of the First Responders would go to relax, get water, food, massages, etc. The cemetery behind it was completely blackened and covered with ashes and its fence walls were covered by posters of missing people for months. Still there and a wonderful piece of history if you ever visit NYC! It's half 9/11 memorial (not to be confused with the formal one) and half church.
It's such a lovely, tranquil venue! I went there once to hear Baluji Shrivastav perform, ages ago. Definitely need to visit it again! Thank you for featuring this wonderful building on your channel.
As a Muslim living in London, it’s very sad to see many beautiful churches are empty across the country
I agree
"As a Muslim"
@@vulpes7079 why have you replied with "as a muslim" - are you trying to get at something?
Wondering who is replacing them and with what 🤔
Christianity is declining in Britain, as is having any faith in general. I agree though that it is sad to see historic buildings lay empty, they could definitely be given a new purpose!
Lol, I literally attended a wedding here last weekend. Super lovely venue, great having a few drinks out back in a tent bookended on all sides by skyscrapers. Plus they let me ring the bell!
Was it dandy? Ringing the bell? 😂
@@localforeigner9528 it was fun but they did tell me I gave it a bit too solid a tug 🫣
How cool!
Sounds super lovely 🙄
And did that act of vandalism change anything? Improve anyone’s life? No. It only destroyed an object of beauty.
Calling a terrorist bombing an "act of vandalism" is certainly a massive understatement.
yup freedom fighters are always wrong, I hate freedom
Now let the mosque incorporate part of a church in it
Ha
😂😂
More than one has done exactly that. You DO understand that they share a "god" with the other two Abraham-ic religions?.
Visit the mesquita in cordoba, Spain. A beautiful mosque with an incongruous, gaudy, catholic thing stuck in the middle.
@@emilydavison2053 There had been a Church on the site of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption before the invasion of the Muslim hordes.
Wow, I will never stop being amazed by London and Londoners ❤
Saint Ethelburger kind of sounds pre-Norman to me! 😊
exactly. A shift from pagan Ethylred. Pre 1066.
There's an Ethelburger Estate, just past Battersea Bridge towards Clapham Junction.
@@emmirey4640 The English had been Christian for centuries before 1066 so the chance of Ethelburg being pagan are essentially 0.
I'd say the Normans actively suppressed the worship of native English saints such as Ethelburga.
What a waste of space!! Reconciliation?? Bedouin tent!!! Absolute joke!
What are you trying to convey here
@@MattTheEngineer. I think he is saying it sounds like another church turned into a mosque, what did you think he was saying?
The fact that a christian church stood there for hundreds of years, and now it's a place catering to minorities.
I think it's an excellent idea, we need more forward thinkers bringing differing people together
@@MattTheEngineer. The fact that a christian church stood here for hundreds of years, now it's catering to minority groups.
Omg cant wait to get back to the UK to tour all your London haunts I didn’t discover despite wandering around for a year there , do you run tours?
A church should always be a church. Should not turn it into anything else.
The vast majority of churches in the UK have already been demolished because they're entirely unwanted.
Blasphemous choices.
Thank you for the information about the history of the church ❤.
I walk past there every week and always wondered what it was. Love London ❤
Really horrible what has become of it. I’d much prefer it to be a real church.
Promoting peace across cultural divides is horrible?
Yes I agree and what's more I don't believe they couldn't have fully restored it to what it was like before the bombing. Too many of the remaining churches in the city are under threat of "redundancy". Considering the background of the current Archbishop of Canterbury you would also have thought he could use that previous experience with his former colleagues to raise funds to repair and keep them open.
What? How is that horrible? Sounds much better than a church to me.
@@DenkyManner yes but you Don't have to turn it into pagan temple to do that
@@wattyler2994that is an incorrect and inappropriate representation of what has been created. We need more such places, thinking and action. Open minds
Note the proximity and pattern of the glass skyscraper. It's a modern 'tower of Babel.'
It looks like a giant glass dong.
That’s a bit of a stretch friend
@@islanddryad what do you expect from insane people?
A church being repurposed into a mosque is the most hilariously modern-London thing I've ever seen.
They took a beautiful ancient church and shit on it.
😢
What a disgrace
Who is they? You did hear the part about the IRA blowing it up, right? Seems like dedicating its mission to reconciliation is pretty fitting... One might even call it very Christian.
I wonder if the 1 million people who starved in Ireland while they were exporting food to Britain would have anything to say about that🤔
@@goose9515 probably not since dead people don't speak
What a heart warming new purpose this building has.
It's not heartwarming. It's depressing. An active church is now a meeting center/wedding venue.
It's not heart warming you fool. They've twisted it's purpose.
@@howtubeableit’s dedicated to peace rather than a single religion.
I’d say it’s gained purpose.
Is is sad that the architecture was destroyed, though
@@howtubeablelots of empty churches in the UK, most are falling down or being turned into houses. What is wrong with the purpose this one has been put to?
Not really. Just more erasure of England and its culture.
Destroyed by terrorists who were cowardly pardoned under the Good Friday Agreement
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy & Reconciliation) Act 2023.
A cowardly piece of legislation to protect British politicians and military personnel from being held responsible for criminal actions.
Oooo looks like someone is hoping for a surprise when they start their car!
@@sodapop8368 Sinn Fein and the IRA are too busy these days fighting actual Irish people who don't support the third world colonisation going on over there.
Only people convicted of crimes and it was early release, not pardons. That’s why British soldiers aren’t covered, because they were never tried for their crimes.
@@Dreyno There were no crimes to be tried for. Only the terrorists committed those.
Why would we want an arab tent in the church ? Thats a shame because its nothing to do with that site
It not an 'Arab tent' it's of the style of a Mongolian Yurt.
I had a birthday event there a few years ago. Loved it, especially when we all gathered in the tent when it rained. It was August in London so no surprise.
Surprised its not a mosque
Seems the CofE tried their best to make it into one.
At least they put a beduine tent in the backyard…
Sure kid.
And again ruined an important church to make an Islamic center
Diverse Britain and muliculturalism are important to people that hate the UK.
Racist
It’s areligious and nondenominational. I guess critical thinking is hard, huh?
Its ok to destroy British history guys because @@ChuffedLemon says its an "areligious and nondenominational" islamic center... Now go to an islamic country and ask for a mosque to be converted to a "areligious and nondenominational" church, see how long you last.
@@ChuffedLemon Can I see a mosque in an islamic country thats been converted to an "areligious and nondenominational" church?
wow this comment section is just... really went downhill
Yeah
Peoples comments about Muslims and the Irish prove why we NEED organisations that bring peace between different groups such as the one that's based in this church
True@@goose9515
Lot's of racists nowadays.
@@goose9515nobody voted for infinity migrants, fix the issue and rediscover how peaceful this land was 💁♂️
A small but great example of why colonization harms the colonizers as well as the colonized. Glad it's been rebuilt.
🤦♂️
History is a long chain of colonizers/colonized, it didn’t just start with Europe.
Was turned into a woke propaganda center, what a shame!
Places like this church and it’s transformation into a center for reconciliation and peace give me hope.
Beautiful
I remember being struck by this little church nestled right next to the huge skyscraper. I also remember learning that it was a centre for reconciliation, but I didn't know it had a beduin building at the back! I would love to visit the centre now.
You have a great Channel.🤓
Good education...🤓
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english history knocks spot of everyone elses
Nah. I'm British and while I'll stand by the quality of our history, we have fair match ups with Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, India, China, and Japan.
@@WolfbloodJakeWilliams Certainly true in terms of it's ancient nature. Obviously you'd add the likes of Egypt to that too. I think ours is the most interesting and beautiful though.
As an Aussie living in London, I walk past here everyday at work to grab my cuppa Joe and didn’t even realise this 😂
Talk about resiliency. I love this little treasure in London. Must visit it next time I make it there again.
It's lovely that something so ancient is being used as a modern symbol of peace and unity.
Wow that's beautiful 😍
I promise you, when the time comes, they won't return the favor. The barbarians aren't at the gates. You let them in and put them on benefits. You bloody fools.
It’s an insult to western culture
Why?
You don't know why... that's why... because the heritage is being removed..
@@chriss4432 it isnt, though? It's an abandoned church, so it'll still have a rich history attached to it, simply because of it's age and location.
Having it be a center for (amongst other things) peace is, in my opinion, just another piece of history in the making, and a very noble value to instill in a building, which has been tied to an institution that historically hasnt been very peaceful and loving
Yeah.. wooosh.
Agreed
Beautiful inside and out. 🌿♥️✌️♥️🌿
I find it ironic that this comment section is the exact opposite of the values that the nonprofit is based on: building relationships across divisions of conflict and culture.
And now there is no conflict in the world. Ah, the power of prayer.
I love that they made it stand for unity instead of division. Wish more places were like that. ❤
It's doublespeak
I used to walk past the church in 2013 when I was working on a building site near it.i used to think who would bother going to this little old church .
These nooks and crannies of London are what endears the city to me the most.
A good excuse for england to close another church in favor of a mini-mosque. Is there a single cross in it? or just lots of foreign icons??
The Irish have never been on the right side of history
That would be abit rich coming from a british person.
@@paddymac5161 Yeah bloody Scots.
@@paddymac5161 for real. im english but the only people who support what we did in ireland either dont know history or profited off it
Ireland is famous for it's citizens volunteering as UN Peacekeepers, So good to know that an English person wants people to live in warzones
Says absolutely nobody outside of Britain. The irony.
So sad to see the spirit of this country being vacant and towered over by sky scrapers. Goes to show the thing we value most is money and ego over morality and ethics.
Im American. Thanks for showing me a beautiful historical church.
I pass here many times. I will check it out.
If ye put down the McDonald's burger 😂
Every now and then raves are hosted in this church.
I've been there 4 times for a rave 😂
Beautiful things are often hidden.
As opposed to a all profit church .....
I worked here once it’s such an amazing church
1300th century.... That's the 1200s! Yikes. Amazing.
Had a party in there last month
The best part is the end, where the church embraced tragedy with love rather than hate. Buillding a place of understanding and reconciliation!
Look around you though, it’s not working.
I just said this place is doing that . The world is another matter entirely. I’m not a religious person, was once, not anymore. It was nice to see one place trying to be the change, we all need.
Thus kinda reminds me of a very similar sized blue church in Tenerife. Cant remember for the life of me where in Tenerife it is, but it was there 13 years ago.
I love these city churches there's quite a few that survived the blitz and the great fire like
St marry axe its close to the gherkin. In the space of a few yards you have a medieval church a 21st century steel and glass tower victorian and Georgian architecture this is one of the things I love about London you are walking through history
I can spend a whole day wandering around the city just looking at churches and buildings there are many other churches designed by Christopher wren and Nicholas Hawksmore
One of my favourite places is St Dunstan's in the east on Eastcheap its an Oasis of calm and peace in the heart of the hectic city of London it's one of my favourite places to just sit and have a coffee there's another on the corner of Newgate Street. I've been to Paris ,Rome and Athens but
I find walking around London more interesting than any of them. I've been
here 73 years but I'm still discovering hidden gems
Imagine being hundreds of years old just to be overshadowed by the gherkin 💀
Love it. Thank You. Wish I could go there.
What a wonderful story!
Very cool. That nonprofit must be very busy of late period
This is super cool
I thought it was an entrance to Diagon Alley 💀
Bring eastern means make it Islamic.
God damn ira...
Can I buy this. Would make a great luxury residential skyscraper
I could pray there. What a beautiful place ❤
St Ethelburga as globalist shill!😂
They adulterated the church of God to add Islam. The building should have been left in pieces and remembered as what it was for.
You know, maybe you should try to learn about the history of a place or it's current settings before having an upset little rant.
They didn't 'add islam' and it's curious that islam is the only religion you'd bring up in a centre used by people of any faith.
Would you have preferred it if they'd reinstated the shops that occupied the front of the building for centuries?
Thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉
If its restored so much can it still be claimed as 13th century?
I want to visit London so bad. I want to be dropped there and walk every street for a week or two 😊
Thats nice but eastern architecture isn't described by a bedouin tent. That's just an insult to 1400 years developing exquisite and complex architectural techniques and styles exemplified in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Isfahan, Istanbul, Tunis, Fez, Andalusia etc.
The colonies of the Arab empire. 👍🏻
That's a Monglian design YURT.
Not Bedouine.
Well it's better than transforming it into a house 🏠.
9/11 made the church adopt Islamic culture? This is why I'm non-denominational Protestant.
Can we visit it ?
It’s no longer a church. Stop calling it that.
It's a church, you can tell by the way it looks and by its former use.
If it was turned into flats or used as a shop *again* it would still be a church.
This church is more of a church than the majority of other churches that have been abandoned, this one is still owned by the church.
You're just obviously not from the UK.
The glass monstrosities in the back just ruined a pretty area of London.
Would love to visit
Please have the details in your narration correct.
That's not a Bedouin tent but a yurt from Inner Asia.
Very interesting, thanks