{"id":1839,"date":"2015-09-17T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/?page_id=1839"},"modified":"2021-10-16T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T16:00:34","slug":"my-church-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"07 My Church November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Tulse Hill Methodist Church<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Samzu75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1822 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Samzu75.jpg\" alt=\"Samzu75\" width=\"75\" height=\"94\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am Samzu and am the organist at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonandstreathammethodist.org.uk\"> Tulse Hill Methodist Church<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the church looks like a recently built church. The present building itself was opened in 1910 however there is more to this story than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2002, the name of the church was Roupel Park Methodist Church. It can be said that a church is not made of a building but the people it comprises and this image is clearly presented here. The present building is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to be created by the church at this location.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first was a small Iron Church founded in 1870 but destroyed by fire in 1877.<\/li>\n<li>The second was a fine Gothic style Weslyan Church opened in 1880 but destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Organ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This organ was installed when the church was re-opened in 1970; that makes it 45 years old. It<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCywc1D7YK0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1854 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/church1-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"church1\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/church1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/church1-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/church1-624x319.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> is a two manual electronic Miller Organ.<\/p>\n<p>45 years for a pipe organ is a relatively small length of time but for an electronic organ, 45 years means the organ is at the dusk of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless the organ still manages to produce it\u2019s electronic sounds to good effect in the church with 16 stops and 1 crescendo pedal for the swell manual.<\/p>\n<p>Hear and see me playing this organ by clicking on the photo of the church and see something of the history of the church by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCywc1D7YK0\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samzu Agbaje<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Previous My Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Sc-cmffmuA_boIH-wmvHKC-l8qylTkKWHTC2Pr0saA8\/pubhtml?gid=983655231&amp;single=true&amp;widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulse Hill Methodist Church I am Samzu and am the organist at the Tulse Hill Methodist Church At first glance, the church looks like a recently built church. The present building itself was opened in 1910 however there is more to this story than meets the eye. Prior to 2002, the name of the church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8641,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/8641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}