The Great Meeting House Unitarian Church, Holyhead Road, Coventry
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The Great Meeting House Unitarian Church, Holyhead Road, Coventry
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 12 Jun 2021
Unitarians emphasise the unity of God, which historically meant rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity common to most Christian churches; more generally, they emphasise the importance of freedom of thought in matters of belief. The Coventry Unitarians left the Church of England in 1662, following the Act of Uniformity, which made the use of the Book of Common Prayer compulsory in church worship in England and Wales. The Great Meeting House opened in 1937, replacing a chapel in Great Smithford Street, which no longer stands. It apparently has the oldest surviving working Hammond electric valve organ in Britain, imported from the USA in 1936. https://www.coventryunitarians.org.uk/about-us/our-history/
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Image Location
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52.411373
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