What became of Rosehill? The Science of the Soul

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What became of Rosehill? The Science of the Soul

Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 22 Jul 2021

The Science of the Soul meditation and study centre is under construction on a site between St Nicholas Street and Radford Road (from which this photo was taken), in Radford, just outside Coventry city centre. It is being developed by the movement Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), which is based in Punjab, India and is led by the guru Gurinder Singh. RSSB has developed out of the Sikh tradition. The site was formerly occupied by the Coventry Coachmakers' Club, a working men's club. The coachmakers were a craft association within the motor industry. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news-coachmakers-social-club-15573750 This appears also to have been the site of Rosehill https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/news/article/bird-grove-and-george-eliot-in-coventry.html , the home of Charles and Cara Bray from 1840 to 1857. Charles was a successful ribbon-manufacturer and a social reformer, while Cara was an artist and writer, also active in work for human and animal welfare. Their salon at Rosehill attracted liberal and freethinking intellectuals, most notably Mary Ann Evans, the young George Eliot, who lived nearby at Bird Grove in Foleshill. https://heritage.humanists.uk/the-rosehill-circle/ One wonders what they would have made of 'The Science of the Soul'.

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