Canolfan Merched y Wawr
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Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 6 Sep 2014
Former Sion Welsh Congregational Chapel in Vulcan Street/Stryd yr Efail. Built in 1821 it is entered from the side, rather than the end, and is the last chapel building in Aberystwyth to retain this feature. It was replaced in 1878 as the local Welsh Congregational Chapel by the Baker Street Chapel (see Image). The old chapel continued to be used as a Sunday School, although during the Second World War it served firstly as a schoolroom for Liverpool evacuees, then a centre for soldiers from Dunkirk and later as a lecture room for trainee aircrews. In the 1950s it was sold to the Apostolic Church, but this was its last use as a place of worship, subsequently being sold on to the Red Cross Society. Its current use is as the Canolfan Merched y Wawr, serving as the headquarters of the organisation (translated in English as Daughters of the Dawn), a Welsh speaking equivalent of the Women's Institute, founded in 1967.
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