Christ the King Church (Brora) | Roman Catholic church

United Kingdom / Scotland / Brora / School Hill, Gower Street
 church, Roman Catholic church

Since many former older Catholic Church buildings (after the Reformation) where now occupied by Protestant Congregations, Catholics in the British Isles after the late 1900's had to build simple new Churches.Brora RC Parish began in 1957.
Christ the King was built in 1973, architect Douglas Reid and dedicated in 1979 .
It is a simple modern building with steeply pitched tiled roof and long windows flooding the interior with light and contemporary church hall in rear.
The Church is in the Diocese of Aberdeen.
This Parish, the only one in the county of Sutherland, Scotland's biggest county, is the largest in geographical area of all the Diocese's Parishes.
Some parishioners travel for many miles in each direction to attend Mass.
Phone: 01408 621388
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   58°0'35"N   3°50'58"W

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  • The parish priest is Fr. Benedict Seed and the Deacon is Mr. Kenneth Bromage. Masses are said daily at eight o' clock (apart from on Tuesdays) and on Sundays at eleven o'clock. Confessions are heard on Saturdays at half past five and on request.
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