Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes Activities <a href="http://www.sacredheartedinburgh.org" target="_blank">www.sacredheartedinburgh.org</a> OpeningTime1 10:00 - 17:00 ArchitectName Richard Vaughan OpeningDate1 28/9/2019 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 10398 Refreshments No Street The street address 28 Lauriston Street Postcode EH3 9DJ Parking No DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Church of the Sacred Heart Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1549 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.94527,-3.201448; Description An account of the resource The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic Church that is served by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The architect of the Church was the Jesuit priest Fr. Richard Vaughn SJ and the Church was founded in 1859. Over the years, the church has been restored and renovated on numerous occasions. In 1907, the organ was installed and was modified in 1963 and 1974. From 1963 to 1990 alterations were made to make the church more compatible with the requirements of the post-Vatican II era. The Church is a category A listed building and is neoclassical in design.GLOBAL CONNECTIONSLocated within the Church is a first-class relic of St Oscar Romero. Oscar Romero was an El Salvadoran Bishop who was marytred whilst saying Mass on the 24th March 1980. He was killed for standing up for oppressed people in his native country. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860