New Places of Worship in Old Places

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 10:08 pm

Mentioned elsewhere,the Pentecostal Church have bought and are developing the former Agnes Stewart High School.Not too farawayThe concert roomof the old Cherry Tree pub is now the Lincoln Green Mosque.The former Alton Cars body shop near Saxton Gardens is now home to 2 churches,The Church of Amzing Grace and Living Hope ChurchIn Shannon st is the Deeper Life Bible Church and Hopecitychurch.TVPhotos hopefully attatched

weenie · Post by **weenie** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 11:25 pm

Lyric Tong road is now a new church.... dont ask me name as i can never read it when i drive past . Also St Micheals Lawns Lane is under a different church now. Weenie

leedslily · Post by **leedslily** » Thu 05 Jul, 2012 2:04 pm

There's a building on Kirkstall Road that's now the Chinese Christian church - I think it was just offices before (and it has a nice Leeds owl on the top: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leedslily/ ... hotostream).

BJF · Post by **BJF** » Thu 05 Jul, 2012 4:08 pm

The Chinese Christian church is what was one of the City Council Environmental Health offices.There's a church in the old Mechanics Institute on Holborn Approach in Woodhouse.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 05 Jul, 2012 6:55 pm

Forgot about th probs with Firefox so here goes with IE

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 05 Jul, 2012 7:20 pm

Life's too short for this messing with photos.They are on Flickr - dogduke.s.l. if anyone isinterested.Found a great topic for a where is it thread last week,went to snapit last night and the residents were sat outside having a drink.Will persevere with posting if I get the shotAmen !

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 05 Jul, 2012 9:55 pm

Not "old places" as such, but there were church meetings being held in one of the function rooms at the Hilton (Dragonara) and in one of the screens at the Vue Cinema in the Light on Sunday mornings, last time I was in the area.

Post by **mhoulden** » Fri 06 Jul, 2012 12:24 am

The downstairs of the Star cinema/fitness centre is now a church as well, although mostly just in the afternoon. Upstairs is still the martial arts gym where I train. A lot of these "new" churches are American-style Pentecostal/evangelical ones rather than more traditional things like C of E or Roman Catholic.

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Fri 06 Jul, 2012 3:16 pm

The restoration of St Marks - Woodhouse is well underway and is being used by a church group making a move from other premiseshttp://www.yorkshiredailyphoto.com/2012/02/lee ... ior.htmlBy now I would imagine they are holding some services there amidst the restoration work

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sun 06 Jan, 2013 11:35 pm

Just an insight about the Cherry Tree from thethirdvolume of Paul O'grady's autobiog,Still standing,theSavage Years"Like me Peter had worked in some rats’ nests in his time but he was totally unprepared for a few of the venues we worked in that week.The worst,and it must have been bad because 30 odd years later we both remembered the experience vividly,was a pub called The Cherry Tree in Leeds.When presented on a contract ,the name sounded quite pleasant,bucolic even,but arriving on a cold grey Sundaylunchtime(2 spots,£50 between us)we found that the Cheery Tree was far from the quaint village pub thatI had naively in mind.It as the kind of pub that sterner members of the SAS would be wary of training in before a stint in Afghanistan,never mind 2 drag queens,and I heard later the place was notorious and the mention of its name would make many a hardened act quake in their shoes."I guy who I knew used to sweep up there the in the mornings,some real specimens in the dust pan most days