Brotherhood Church
The Brotherhood Church is a
History
The church can be traced back to 1887 when a
Subsequent communities were established by a
In 1897 several members, some from a Quaker background, moved to Leeds. The receipt of a legacy enabled the group to relocate to a seven and a half acre smallholding at Stapleton in 1921.[2][6] Another Purleigh splinter group established the Whiteway Colony in 1898, funded by a Quaker journalist.[3]
John Bruce Wallace went on to become an early resident at Letchworth in Hertfordshire where he held religious gatherings each Sunday in the Howard Hall. After the establishment of the Brotherhood Church Wallace founded the Alpha Union Society which held many of its meetings at the recently built The Cloisters in Letchworth.[7]
In 1934, the church was demolished and now a block of flats stands on the site.[8]
Stapleton Colony
The
See also
References
- ^ "The Brotherhood Church".
The Brotherhood Church originated as a Christian anarchist pacifist community
- ^ a b "The Brotherhood Church - A Brief History".
- ^ a b c Charlotte Alston (2010). "Tolstoy's Guiding Light". History Today. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012.
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He fell out with Chertkov in England, and also quarrelled with Aylmer Maude over the English translation of Tolstoy's works
- Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre(2010). Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel. Exeter: Imprint Academic. p. 257.
Tolstoyism and Tolstoyan colonies
- ^ "Brotherhood Church". Diggers and Dreamers.
- Letchworth Garden CityCollection.
- ^ Bartholomew, Emma. "How a tiny Southgate Road chapel played a big role in Russia's 1917 October Revolution". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Life at One of England's Last Tolstoyan Communes". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Brotherhood Church". Utopia Britannica.
British Utopian Experiments (1325-1945), Yorkshire
- ^ "Obituary for Len W. Gibson". War Resisters' International.
Further reading
- Higgins, Alfred G. (1982). A History of the Brotherhood Church.
- Weller, Ken (1985). "Chapter 16: The Brotherhood Church". "Don't Be a Soldier!": The Radical Anti-War Movement in North London 1914-1918.
- Draper, Warren (2012). "Anarchy in Albion: Utopia, Tolstoy and the Brotherhood Church". The Idler: The Utopia Issue. No. 45.