Aberdare on Wikipedia.

All photos © Gerard Charmley.

The ruined Bethania Calvinistic Methodist Church (1853). Gerard advises that the local council has served a compulsory purchase order on the building, and a search turned up this document (warning - large pdf file), which says that the intention is to turn it into flats.

Calfaria Baptist Church, one of Aberdare's oldest chapels.

Elim Church was originally the Sunday School for Bethesda Primitive Methodist Church, which stood on the grassed site to the front.

English Methodist Church, originally Wesleyan (1859).

Highland Place Unitarian Church.

The former Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist Church, now a builders' merchants.

St. David (Presbyterian) was built by a group from Trinity Welsh Presbyterian Church, who joined the English Presbyterians.

St. Elvan (CiW), the present parish church. Link.

The original parish church was St. John the Baptist (CiW). Link.

St. Joseph (R.C.).

Salvation Army Citadel.

Siloa Welsh Congregational Chapel.

The former Soar Wesleyan Methodist Church, now a youth centre.

Trinity Welsh Presbyterian Church.