Salvation Army Temple, Friars Gate, Exeter
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Salvation Army Temple, Friars Gate, Exeter
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 23 Jun 2021
The Salvation Army were invited to Exeter in 1881 by Ernest Stear, a Methodist preacher with a temperance chapel in Friars Walk, then in the West Quarter, a very poor and slummy district of the city where alcoholism was rife. The chapel was soon replaced by the Exeter Temple, which was decorated with crenellated battlements, since removed. The early years of the revival movement were characterised by violent attacks on the revivalists by a 'Skeleton Army' of criminals recruited by publicans and brewers, who saw their trade threatened by the temperance message, with the collusion of the city authorities, who preferred to testify against and imprison the Salvationists. http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_organisations/salvationarmy.php
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Image Location
Latitude
50.719115
Longitude
-3.529282