Expert Comment: Church-to-mosque conversions grab headlines, but is funding the real crisis?

Published on February 27, 2026

Reverend Canon Professor William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History in the Faculty of History, reacts to Reform UK's announcement that it would ‘end the incendiary practice of converting churches into mosques or any other places of worship’ - arguing that the real problem is how we can sustain places of worship in the twenty-first century.  
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