{"id":29292,"date":"2021-10-14T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29292"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:37:13","slug":"trinity-anglican-church-st-thomas-is-now-an-islamic-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/trinity-anglican-church-st-thomas-is-now-an-islamic-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Anglican Church, St. Thomas is now an Islamic Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Anglican Church in St. Thomas was founded in 1877 to replace an older church which worshippers had outgrown.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the church\u2019s website is no more, just like the church. The parish\u2019s last gasp of life can be found in its Facebook page. Unlike their owners who dwell in a realm where moth and rust doth corrupt, Facebook pages are beneficiaries of cyberspace immortality. There the parish optimistically proclaims that it is a <em>\u201cvibrant, engaging, faith community with a fully accessible building.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a sense that is still true, it\u2019s just not a <em>Christian<\/em> faith community. For all we know it never was, at least within living memory.<\/p>\n<p>From this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29293\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Church.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to this in one short year of the plague:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29294\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mosque-423x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mosque-423x1024.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mosque-124x300.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mosque.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Anglican Church in St. Thomas was founded in 1877 to replace an older church which worshippers had outgrown. Alas, the church\u2019s website is no more, just like the church. The parish\u2019s last gasp of life can be found in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/trinity-anglican-church-st-thomas-is-now-an-islamic-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":43,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}