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Princess Street, COVENTRY, CV6 5BU

Sikh Temple in Cross Road.

View from St Elizabeth's Road, Foleshill. The junction with Eld Road is just out of shot to the right.

The Sign on the wall of this old School building says Paradise Day Centre. It is unclear if this building is still in use.

On the former Alfred Herberts factory site, off Stoney Stanton Road.

The Shree Mandhata Samaj Community Centre. Established in 1978 in a converted Primitive Methodist School. Paradise is an area of Foleshill.

The community hall occupies a former Primitive Methodist School of 1907, as can be seen from the inscriptions on the facade; there is also a large cross indelibly incorporated in the brickwork, standing out in relief. Paradise Primitive Methodist Chapel (Paradise is the name of the district) was first built in 1828, was rebuilt in 1865, and the Sunday school was built alongside it. The chapel has since been demolished. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p97. According to its website, Shree Mandhata Samaj UK is an association of Koli Patels, a jati or caste originally from Navsari District in Gujarat, India. Many members subsequently emigrated to East Africa, where they adopted the name Mandhata Samaj for their community. They retained it when they moved later to Britain and other countries as political conditions became difficult for them in East Africa. https://www.amsuk.org/about-us/

Abandoned electric organs and stools gather dust and fallen plaster in the showroom of Greens, which appears to have closed for good. Stoney Stanton Road and Crabmill Lane can be seen reflected in the shop window.

The Church of Saint Vladimir The Great, which is Ukrainian Catholic Eastern Rite.

The centre occupies the buildings of the Broad Street school, which opened in 1911 and became Broad Heath School in 1949 (Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p36).

This church building opened in 1962 and stands on the site of a Wesleyan chapel that was built in 1839 and destroyed in the second world war. After 1945 the Methodists built on its site a wooden chapel which may form the basis of the current building; see the Victoria County History of Warwickshire Vol 8 pp382-396 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp382-396#h3-0017 . Ukrainians settled in Coventry during and after the second world war, driven from their homeland by war and political persecution. Many were Catholics of the eastern or Byzantine rite, in communion with the Roman Catholic Church but worshipping according to a liturgy much closer to that of the Orthodox Church. Masses according to this rite were celebrated in Catholic parish churches in Coundon and later Foleshill until this church was built (ibid. pp368-371 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp368-371 ) St Wolodymyr is better known in the west by the Russian form of his name, Vladimir. He was a pagan ruler of Kyivan Rus', which encompassed peoples living in parts of what is now Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. His conversion to Christianity in the year 988 led to their becoming Christians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great