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delbow66
 
Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2004 03:34 am
Does anyone know how many churches there are in Britain? I mean actual buildings, including synagogues, mosques, temples etc.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2004 10:40 pm
They have 'churches' in the UK? News to me! Wink
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2004 11:30 pm
Someone started to collect photos of all UK-churches: he' up to 2,100 by now - seems to be a very low number, when you look at the list and see, which are missed from the region, where you live :wink:


I don't think, you'll find a complete list somewhere.
(There are nearly complete lists of hisroric churches, new churches, churches from different beliefs etc, mostly for a county, a diocese ...)


Welcome to A2K, btw, delbow66 !
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2004 11:57 pm
delbow, I'll add my Welcome to A2K. I hope you realize that I was just "pulling your leg" by my first response. Dry humour. Wink
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Adrian
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jun, 2004 12:40 am
Not sure how you would get that info delbow66. The government would probably keep records in the tax department but they aren't readily available. The only thing I can offer is that back in 1851 they did a special census of all places of worship in England and Wales. There were about 34,000 back then. Scotland was done seperately but at the moment I can't seem to find a link.

Will be back if I find more.
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jun, 2004 05:15 am
delbow66

There's a church in pretty much every village, a couple in each town an hundreds in cities like London. Cities will also have more non-Christian places of worship (though a village near my parents' house has a Buddhist temple, which peeks strangely above the very English trees and landscape!).

The 34,000 noted by Adrian will be a good start - some have been converted into appartments (as congregations have delcined), others have been built and there are MANY more non-Christian centres (thanks to immigration in the last 153 years!). I'd guess 40,000.

KP
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jun, 2004 05:27 am
How many churches in the UK? God knows.
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delbow66
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jun, 2004 06:52 am
Thanks very much for everyone's input, and thanks for the welcome. 40,000 seems like a reasonable estimate. I'll go with that for now.
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Tue 29 Jun, 2004 06:56 am
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:
How many churches in the UK? God knows.


<groan> Laughing
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jun, 2004 07:10 am
It might have been obvious Pete but I got there first Smile
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iceman71
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 11:01 am
ive heard that there are thousands of mosques in england due to the fact that if you class your house as a religious building then you dont have to pay council tax ,as religious buildings are exempt from tax.
dont know if thats true but if it is im now writing this from my pulpit
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 11:15 am
iceman71 wrote:
ive heard that there are thousands of mosques in england due to the fact that if you class your house as a religious building then you dont have to pay council tax ,as religious buildings are exempt from tax.


Since there live definately less Muslims than others in England, and, I'm sure (I know some personally :wink: ) these others don't like to pay taxes either - why, do you think, iceman, don't they change their houses to temples, chapels, churches etc?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 11:21 am
Actually, there about 600 mosques in the UK for the about 1.5 million Muslims - that's for the United Kingdom, iceman, not just for England!
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 02:22 pm
All are welcome at the Orchard Mosque (fridays) the Old Synagogue (Saturdays) and the Harlow Free Church (Sundays). That should win some tax rebate.


Smile
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iceman71
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 02:36 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Actually, there about 600 mosques in the UK for the about 1.5 million Muslims - that's for the United Kingdom, iceman, not just for England!

yes officially 600 walter unofficially thousands.probably catching on as we speak.not just muslims but of all religions. i just need to find a stained glass window specialist and get a font ,organ and a happy clappy tambourine rattler and im well on my way to saving thousands.
praise the lord for "special" tax havens.
jesus certainly does save. Razz
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2004 03:53 pm
I have an idea; you could use Yellow pages and see how many churches it produces.

Iceman's right, by the way; because of the demand for mosques, even small houses are turning into them, even if they're not officially registered. As well as being free from tax, religions are also charities in their own right under British law... hmm.
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iceman71
 
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Reply Sat 3 Jul, 2004 05:32 am
dròm_et_rêve wrote:


Iceman's right, by the way; because of the demand for mosques, even small houses are turning into them, even if they're not officially registered. As well as being free from tax, religions are also charities in their own right under British law... hmm.



Thought it was true,hmmmmmm........... i dont have anything against anyone of religious beliefs but perhaps certain legal loopholes should be closed.
or by next year if we all class our homes as religious buildings our beloved government will be a bit short of cash to squander Razz
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iceman71
 
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Reply Sat 3 Jul, 2004 05:48 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Actually, there about 600 mosques in the UK for the about 1.5 million Muslims - that's for the United Kingdom, iceman, not just for England!

1.5 million divided by 600 = 2500 muslims per official mosque
1.5 million divided by family of four muslims = 375,000 mosques
375,000 mosques NOT paying average of £1000 council tax = £375million
EARTH TO PRIME MINISTER
Rolling Eyes
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 3 Jul, 2004 06:16 am
iceman71 wrote:

1.5 million divided by 600 = 2500 muslims per official mosque
1.5 million divided by family of four muslims = 375,000 mosques
375,000 mosques NOT paying average of £1000 council tax = £375million
EARTH TO PRIME MINISTER
Rolling Eyes


Actually, I've some other information - a look at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's website could give you some help, too.

However, even if this were true - why do you think
a) that only Muslims act so,
b) that all Muslims live in a family of four?
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iceman71
 
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Reply Sat 3 Jul, 2004 12:38 pm
[quote
yes officially 600 walter unofficially thousands.probably catching on as we speak.not just muslims but of all religions. [/quote]

think ive already said all religions in previous please note above.
family of four based on average family size unless you can tell me otherwise walter
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