We will be continuing our Faith Tours exploring Faiths and places of worship in Manchester with a continued introduction to different denominations in Christianity.

On Monday 24th February, we will be starting the tour at 10:30am at Friends Meeting House where we will be greeted upon arrival with drinks and biscuits. Our tour guide will be our very own Trustee Margaret who was raised as a Roman Catholic but found her Spiritual home within the Religious Society of Friends (known as Quakers.)

As a child Margaret lived in many places around the UK, acquiring an acute sense of what it is like to be an outsider, living for limited periods in other countries reinforced that sense. It also brought knowledge of the many wonderful aspects, and often unacknowledged prejudices, each country demonstrated. These experiences were repeated when working within the NHS where unwitting discrimination was, and still is, evident. Being a Trustee for Faith Network for Manchester is a continuation of her spiritual and service journey.

The tour will provide insight into the history of how the Quakers were founded, their faith practices and beliefs. There will also be the opportunity to look around the site and other parts of the building. 

We will then break for lunch and meet back at 2pm at The Catholic Chaplaincy Church of the Holy Name where we will meet our tour guide Adam Brocklehurst, a local historian and theologian part of the Manchester Universities Chaplaincy team. In his free time he likes to undertake pilgrimages, his most recent being the Camino Santiago De Compostela.

This portion of the tour will include a history of the Roman Catholic Church as a building, a worshipping community and as part of the local context, architecture and art as well as a description of the various symbols in the church.

Places are limited book your place via: https://FN4MFaithToursFeb2025.eventbrite.co.uk