About Leeds Minster
Prayer and worship have been offered from this site for over fourteen hundred years. Find out about our heritage and also about our present.
About Leeds Minster
Prayer and worship have been offered from this site for over fourteen hundred years. Find out about our heritage and also about our present.
About Leeds Minster
Leeds Minster is a centre of musical excellence, with music at its heart. Why not come to an organ recital or to hear the choir sing at Choral Evensong? Find out more about how to be part of it! Buy the choir's new CD of Lloyd Webber's The Saviour!
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Services include prayer, readings, music, sermons and hymns which all draw on the wisdom of those who have gone before us. Come and join us!
WorshipFind out here about the discipleship groups, worship and music on offer this Lent for anyone who wishes to join… read more
Leeds Minster announces that the Stitch Their Names Together exhibition, which was scheduled to continue until this coming Sunday, has now closed.
As an act of remembrance of men, women and children killed in Gaza since October 2023 names of those killed have been stitched on panels. Those names have come from the published list from the Gaza Health Authority.
As the exhibition was scheduled to open we were contacted by the Leeds Jewish Representative Council suggesting that, amongst the 16,800 names, there was likely to be 12 names of known Hamas fighters. We immediately checked if those 12 names were in fact on the 90 panels in Leeds Minster and were able to confirm that they were not and so the opening of the exhibition went ahead as planned.
Today we received further information from the Leeds Jewish Representative Council indicating that they had evidence suggesting that there are the names of at least 18 known Hamas fighters contained in the exhibition in the Minster. Having received this information, we immediately decided to close the exhibition to the public.
Leeds Minster categorically condemns all violence and in particular the killing of civilians and the taking of hostages, by Hamas, on October 7th 2023.
Leeds Minster seeks to work with all faith groups within the city and acknowledges that by hosting this exhibition we have harmed our relationship with some in the Jewish community for which we apologize and now seek to rebuild trust.
The Revd Canon Paul Maybury
On behalf of Leeds Minster
10.00am 18 September 2026
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent on 18 February. We are offering a full programme of discipleship groups, worship and music to sustain us and anyone who wishes to join in with us as we prepare to commemorate Christ’s death and celebrate his resurrection. Everyone is welcome.
During the five weeks of Lent (22 February, 1,8,15,22 March) we hold groups where anyone who is interested can meet with others to share and discuss ideas about Christian living, following a prescribed course.
This year we are offering three groups: one focussing on the Gospel of St Matthew, a second focussing on the habits and patterns of life associated with discipleship, and the third following a course based around the film Wicked ! Find out more and choose a group…
We offer a simple lunch at 12.15pm on Sundays followed by a choice of groups until 2pm. There is a sign-up sheet where you can volunteer to bring soup and bread. During the five weeks of Lent (22 February, 1,8,15,22 March) we offer a simple lunch at 12.15pm on Sundays followed by a choice of groups at 2pm. There is a sign-up sheet where you can volunteer to bring soup and bread.
Click below to see a selection of the Services and music events for Lent or go to the What’s On page for a full listing.
The Minster’s regular opening hours are shown here.
Any changes will be listed below.
Our address is 2-6 Kirkgate, Leeds, LS2 7DJ (view map)
We are 10 minutes’ walk from the railway station, 3 minutes’ walk from the bus station and within easy reach of several local hotels, such as the Travelodge.
‘God freely doth forgive, but who shall tell the cost? Behold the Cross, and live!’ These words from Bryn Rees’… read more
The powerful are brought low, and Love - God's Love, in all the vulnerability and weakness displayed in Jesus' death - is shown to be the key to life instead.
God calls us by name to live in and by this love. Nothing else matters.
We're always on the lookout for new ringers
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Join us for our free lunchtime organ recitals every Friday
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