Promoting the recording of sites and buildings of all places of worship in Scotland, for the benefit of everyone interested in understanding and protecting this rich heritage of the people of Scotland.

Scottish Church Heritage Research (SCHR) is a voluntary co-ordinating body, comprising individuals from various professions, faiths and backgrounds. We share an interest in bringing to a wider public an understanding of all the places and buildings that have been used as places of worship in Scotland, regardless of faith, denomination or present condition.

SCHR has set up the Places of Worship in Scotland project to complete an illustrated gazetteer for publication. These places range from early Christian sites, through small rural churches to cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, temples and meeting halls. Many of these buildings date from the period of population growth in the 19th Century. Now many lie redundant, while others have been reused, redeveloped and some demolished.

SCHR recognises a need for a contemporary record of all these buildings and related places because the social and historic information associated with them should not be forgotten.

The Gazetteer is being compiled locally to form a national record for use by local communities, schools, congregations, historical groups, family historians and researchers. It will be a record of all the sites and buildings, rural and urban, used by communities of all faiths and which form part of the collective experience of the people of Scotland.