With more than 240 majority-black churches in the borough of Southwark, London has the greatest concentration of African Christianity in the world outside of Africa.
Few Londoners know this. From the outside, the churches – concentrated in the industrial stretches and quieter, often poorer suburbs in the south of the city – are largely anonymous. As photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews says, they are in “unlikely, reinvented spaces”: former factories, workshops, offices and warehouses, all transformed into sacred places of worship.
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