For almost 175 years it has been a place of refuge, prayer, and strength for a city. It survived two world wars, and when, in the 1990s Chapel Street was desolate with boarded-up properties and plots of open land after partial clearance it remained defiant.
More recently it was included with its own card on the Salford version of the Monopoly board game. READ MORE : Young woman fears she was spiked with needle while visiting Manchester's Christmas Markets Four years ago it was where cast and fans said goodbye to Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth, at the funeral of Liz Dawn, the actress, who played the character for more than three decades.
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