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- Mount Zion Chapel features in Lowry’s <\/font>A Street in Clitheroe<\/font><\/li>\n
- Plans to convert disused building into mosque had sparked complaints<\/font><\/li>\n
- Muslim leaders<\/a> say conversion has won support of all sections of community<\/p>\n
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Published:<\/span> 16:57 BST, 29 July 2013 <\/span> | Updated:<\/span> 01:38 BST, 30 July 2013 <\/span> <\/p>\n
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A former chapel featured in one of LS Lowry’s renowned street scenes is to reopen as a mosque.<\/font><\/p>\n
The plan to use the Mount Zion Methodist Church in Clitheroe, Lancashire, as a Muslim place of worship initially sparked fierce opposition.<\/font><\/p>\n
The chapel can be seen in the 1954 painting A Street in Clitheroe, one of several paintings that Lowry, famous for his matchstick men, made of the town.<\/font><\/p>\n
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Conversion: The disused chapel in Clitheroe is being converted into the town’s first mosque<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Revered: The Mount Zion chapel in the Lancashire market town can be seen on the right in Lowry’s painting A Street in Clitheroe<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nIt had by then been closed for worship for 14 years, finding roles as a munitions store, metal box works and garment-making factory.<\/font><\/p>\n
Now the local Muslim community is close to being able to worship in what will be the market town’s first mosque.<\/font><\/p>\n
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Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nPlans lodged by Clitheroe’s 300 Muslims in 2006 to convert it into a mosque sparked hundreds of objections, many of them branded racist, and the issue was picked up by the British National Party.<\/font><\/p>\n
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‘Wonderful’: Muslim leaders in Clitheroe say that, despite initial opposition, the project has now received positive reactions from all sectors of the community<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018However, the support from across the town is really wonderful.We’ve been getting positive reactions from interfaith groups and people of no religion too are getting behind the project.’<\/font><\/p>\n
He added that reopening the chapel to worshippers – albeit of a different religion – was in keeping with its significance to the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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