A Very Minimalist Church
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A Very Minimalist Church
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 22 Mar 2021
This church not only has no spire - it also has a flat roof, no windows, and the only cross on display is a big monstrous concrete thing near the entrance. Back in the middle of the 19th century around 60% of the population were regular churchgoers. Today it is around a tenth of that, and this figure is no doubt bolstered by the large number of practising Catholic East Europeans that settled here around 20 years ago. So new churches are therefore far more modest affairs than their predecessors, there being less money taken in. Modern churches often seem to have more than one name on them. As well as being called St. Philip's Church it is also called Livingston United Parish Church. Philip was one of the twelve disciples, and like a lot of them apparently, after Jesus's death he spent his time preaching before meeting a grisly end.
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Image Location
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55.880646
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-3.504153