Leicester Areopagus

Abstract

"If you were to take a train to Leicester - one of Britain's most religiously diverse cities - two sights would greet you as you emerged from the station. Straight in front you would see the tower of a disused Anglican church, now converted into flats. Behind you to the left, your eye would be caught by the huge dome of the Central Mosque, filled daily with hundreds of worshippers. In other parts of the city, Christian redundancy and new religious use come together in the same building - most poignantly, the former Carey Hall, a Baptist church named after the great missionary to India, is now the sumptuous Shree Sanatan Mandir (Hindu temple)"