The Tabernacle, Notting Hill

The Tabernacle is a Grade II-listed building in Powis Square, Notting Hill, west London, England, built in 1887 as a church.

Forlong had been a preacher at the Victoria Hall in Archer Street, and was soon able to raise the capital to build a temporary iron church, with a capacity of around 1,000 people.

[4] In the 1970s The Tabernacle became a community arts centre, leased on a peppercorn rent from Kensington and Chelsea Council by a management committee made up of local enthusiasts.

[citation needed] Despite the injection of considerable energy and goodwill by a wide range of local groups, the Tabernacle had a somewhat hand-to-mouth existence, and in the late 1970s the main hall was still undeveloped, stripped of its seating and not in daily use.

[5] In 2016, the British Palestinian artist Reem Kelani released a double album of songs entitled Live at the Tabernacle and based on a live recording of a concert she gave in 2012 as part of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council Nour Festival of Arabic Arts [6] The Tabernacle is no longer a place of worship, but continues to serve the secular needs of the local community.