Tour Scotland Photograph Pulpit Parish Church Burntisland Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the pulpit and sailing ship in the Parish Church in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The timber pulpit in the central bay was installed in 1922. The church organ was gifted to the church in 1908 by Andrew Carnegie. Burntisland developed as a fishing and seaport, being second only to Leith in the Firth of Forth, and shipbuilding became an important industry in the town. In 1633 one of the barges, the Blessing of Burntisland, carrying Charles I and his entourage's baggage from Burntisland to Leith sank with the loss of Charles' treasure. In 1601, King James VI chose the town as an alternative site for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. This was when a new translation of the Bible was first discussed, a project which James brought to fruition a decade later in the King James Bible.



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