Babel Chapel, Groesfaen
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Babel Chapel, Groesfaen
Image: © John Lord Taken: 4 Nov 2017
Babel appears to be the name by which the chapel is currently known, e.g. on the bus-stop near it, and the bus time-table. This surprising name for a place of worship (in the Book of Genesis the tower of Babel came under God's judgment as expressing man's rebellion against God) is a corruption of the Welsh word Babell, meaning a tent, presumably a reference to the Tabernacle, Israel's place of worship. Babell was originally a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel, but is now used by the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520313
Longitude
-3.342798