News from '121'
New Christian bookshop opens next to '121'
A new Christian bookshop is set to open in the heart of Edinburgh's city centre, next to the Church of Scotland's headquarters.
The Kirk has announced that a Living Oasis Bookshop will temporarily fill the vacant premises on George Street, where Wesley Owen previously was. It is being launched by the Nationwide Christian Trust.
Angus Macpherson, convener of the Church's Central Services Committee, said: "The Central Services Committee is very pleased that Living Oasis are temporarily taking over the George Street bookshop. We warmly welcome them and wish them every success.
"This will continue the ministry to the Church and the wider community so faithfully carried out by the Wesley Owen bookshop for many years."
Ray George, Chairman of Trustees for the Nationwide Christian Trust, said he was "delighted" at the news: "We believe there is an opportunity to serve the people of Edinburgh through Christian books and media and this has been sadly missing for the last six months.
"We are delighted that in two weeks' time, we will be opening the doors again to a new bookshop."
IBS-STL UK, the company behind former tenants Wesley Owen, went into administration last year, and the premises have been unoccupied since the bookshop closed in February.
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