EIGHT BUILDINGS FOR EIGHT FAITHS IN LONDON

The Arts Society Horsham

Wednesday 13 November 2024 - 10:45

The Capitol North Street Horsham RH12 1RG

Appreciate the astonishing range of signature buildings of faith communities settling in London. New arrivals leave their imprint on a city – nowhere more so than in London where Jews Muslims Roman Catholics Hindus Methodists Sikhs Buddhists and Orthodox Greeks have each added their own layer. Not least they have all left a remarkable signature. Here are eight faith communities which can each point to a special place they built not on first arrival but when numbers and self-confidence had grown in the knowledge they had established themselves for the long term.

Crucially it was when they had the wealth and resources to commission great architecture. So we have a synagogue a chapel a gurdwara a monastery a couple of cathedrals a temple and a mosque permanent markers of the highest quality. Their differences stretch across cultures and 300 hundred years of persecutions and economic crises. But their similarities are also striking.

HOW TO BOOK THIS EVENT:

No booking necessary. Free to members. Non-members welcome £8 on the door.

Charlie Forman

As a London walking tour guide and lecturer he highlights the social architectural and artistic history of his home city. It is a city he is passionate about not least because it has a historic core larger and richer than any other world city. A member of the City of Westminster Guide Lecturers Association his talks focus on the forces that have shaped and changed this multi-faceted metropolis and the artistic and cultural heritage that this has given us. After many hundreds of walks and a four-decade long career in housing and regeneration he has absorbed a deep understanding and appreciation of the capital. His publications include Spitalfields: A battle for land.

Host or Publisher Stephen Sandham