List of churches in Shetland

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A List of churches in Shetland, Scotland.

The Reformation reached Shetland in 1560. This was an apparently peaceful transition and there is little evidence of religious intolerance in Shetland's recorded history.^[2] A variety of different religious denominations are represented in the islands.

The islands were originally covered by 12 civil parishes: Bressay, Delting, Dunrossness, Fetlar, Lerwick, Nesting, Northmaven, Sandsting, Tingwall, Unst, Walls and Sandness, and Yell.

Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland has a Presbytery of Shetland.

Bressay Church, Bressay
Fetlar Kirk, Fetlar
St Magnus Kirk, Hamnavoe, Yell
St Columba's Church, Lerwick, Mainland^[3]
St John's Church, Baltasound, Unst
Whalsay Parish Church, Whalsay

Episcopalian

Shetland is part of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

The Chapel of Jesus the Good Shepherd, Westing, Unst is maintained by the Anglican religious order of nuns, the Society of Our Lady of the Isles. Their previous place of worship, the Chapel of Christ the Encompasser, Fetlar has now been sold.
St Colman's Church, Burravoe, Yell, the most northerly Episcopal parish church in Scotland.^[4]
St Magnus' Church, Lerwick, Mainland.

Methodist

The Methodist Church has a relatively high membership in Shetland, which is a District of the Methodist Church (with the whole of the rest of Scotland comprising a separate District).^[5] There are 53 Methodist congregations in Scotland, of which 13 (almost a quarter) are located in Shetland.

Haroldswick Methodist Church, Haroldswick, Unst is the most northerly church building in the UK.^[1]

Roman Catholic

Shetland is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen. There is only one Catholic Church in Shetland, located in Lerwick. However, Mass is said in other places, using other places of worship belonging to other Christian groups on an occasional basis.

Church of St Margaret and the Sacred Heart, Lerwick, Mainland^[6]

Citations

^ ^a ^b "Haroldswick". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
^ Schei (2006) p. 14
^ "Lerwick and Bressay Parish Church Profile" Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. (pdf) shetland-communities.org.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
^ "St Colman's Church, Burravoe". Scottish Episcopal Church. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
^ "The District". methodist.org.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
^ "Lerwick RC Parish Church". Catholic Shetland. Retrieved 9 September 2019.