Bury Unitarian Church

About

Our Church has its origins in the late 17th century, its first chapel being built in 1719. We are the oldest nonconformist congregation in Bury.

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We believe that:

- everyone has the right to seek truth and meaning for themselves.

- the fundamental tools for doing this are your own life experience, your reflection upon it, your intuitive understanding and the promptings of your own conscience.

- the best setting for this is a community that welcomes you for who you are, complete with your beliefs, doubts and questions.

We can be called religious 'liberals':

- religious because we unite to celebrate and affirm values that embrace and reflect a greater reality than self.

- liberal because we claim no exclusive revelation or status for ourselves; because we afford respect and toleration to those who follow different paths of faith.

We are called 'Unitarians':

- because of our traditional insistence on divine unity, the oneness of God.

- because we affirm the essential unity of humankind and of creation.