List of churches in Shetland
A List of churches in Shetland, Scotland.
The Reformation reached Shetland in 1560. This was an apparently peaceful transition and there is little evidence of religious intolerance in Shetland's recorded history.[2] A variety of different religious denominations are represented in the islands.
The islands were originally covered by 12 civil parishes: Bressay, Delting, Dunrossness, Fetlar, Lerwick, Nesting, Northmaven, Sandsting, Tingwall, Unst, Walls and Sandness, and Yell.
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland has a Presbytery of Shetland.
- Bressay Church, Bressay
- Fetlar Kirk, Fetlar
- St Magnus Kirk, Hamnavoe, Yell
- St. Columba's Church, Lerwick, Mainland[3]
- St John's Church, Baltasound, Unst
- Whalsay Parish Church, Whalsay
Episocopalian
- Chapel of Christ the Encompasser, Fetlar is maintained by the most northerly and remote Anglican religious order of nuns.
- St Colman's Church, Burravoe, Yell, the most northerly Parish Episcopal Church in Scotland.[4]
- St Magnus' Church, Lerwick, Mainland.
Methodist
The Methodist Church has a relatively high membership in Shetland, which is a District of the Methodist Church (with the whole of the rest of Scotland comprising a separate District).[5]
- Haroldswick Methodist Church, Haroldswick, Unst is the most northerly church building in the UK.[1]
Roman Catholic
Shetland is part of the Diocese of Aberdeen.
- Church of St. Margaret and the Sacred Heart, Lerwick, Mainland
Citations
- 1 2 "Haroldswick". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ↑ Schei (2006) p. 14
- ↑ "Lerwick and Bressay Parish Church Profile" Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.. (pdf) shetland-communities.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ↑ "St Colman's Church, Burravoe". Scottish Episcopal Church. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ↑ "The District". methodist.org.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
References
- Schei, Liv Kjørsvik (2006) The Shetland Isles. Grantown-on-Spey. Colin Baxter Photography. ISBN 978-1-84107-330-9
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