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A fact from Jireh Chapel, Lewes appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Since January 2024, the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church has ceased to exist. The building they formerly used: Jireh Chapel, Lewes, is now used (since December 2024) by a local Strict Baptist congregation. Can anybody advise how to change the title of the wikipaedia page to reflect this. Ideally it would be altered to "Jireh Chapel, Lewes" as it is no longer the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church. Mention of its historic use by the free Presbyterians would still feature on the page as part of the history of the chapel. Hjm5081 (talk) 10:17, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I have tried to edit the text of the article. My suggestions are:
(1) In the opening paragraph keep it just as: "The Jireh Chapel is a former Calvinistic Independent chapel in the Cliffe area of Lewes, the county town of East Sussex and the main town in the local government district of Lewes. It is more than 200 years old and has been designated a Grade I Listed building."
(2) In the last paragraph of the history edit mention of the Free Presbyterians to "The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster acquired the chapel in April 1998 and used it as a place of worship until January 2024. The denomination was founded by Ian Paisley on 17 March 1951 in Crossgar, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It quickly became established across Northern Ireland, where dozens of churches were founded, and some congregations developed in the rest of Great Britain as well. Scotland and Wales each have several, and in 2025 there are seven in England."
Under "The Church Today" - replace the first paragraph with: "Since December, 2024, the chapel has been used for worship by the Strict Baptist church formed at Galeed Chapel, Brighton, in 1869. Two Sunday services and evening meetings on Wednesday and Friday take place each week."
