Editing Bedford (section)

==Religious sites==
[[File:QPSikhTemple.JPG|thumb|left|The Guru Nanak [[Gurdwara]] in [[Queens Park, Bedford|Queens Park]]]]
The town has a high number of places of worship, including the Civic and County Church of [[St Paul's Church, Bedford|St Paul's]] and the Church of [[St. Peter's Church, Bedford|St Peter's]]. There are three from the [[Newfrontiers]] network, as well as Polish, Arab, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian [[Roman Catholic]] churches, [[Latter Day Saint|LDS]] ([[Mormon]]) meeting houses, [[Church of Greece|Greek]], [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian]] and other [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] churches, [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] churches, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] churches, [[Baptists|Baptist]] churches, [[Evangelical]] churches, [[The United Methodist Church|Methodist]] churches, [[Protestant]] churches, [[Church of England|Anglican]] churches and various independent churches and other places of worship that cater to the different ethnic, racial, and language groups. There are four [[Islam]]ic  mosques in the town. There are also [[Buddhist]] and [[Hindu]] temples in the town.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Bedford has the largest [[Sikhism|Sikh]] [[gurdwara]] in the United Kingdom outside London, alongside two other Sikh gurdwaras; one of which is in Kempston. Bedford has [[Guru Ravidass]] and [[Balmiki sect|Valmiki]] temples.

There are [[Quaker]], [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] and [[Wicca]]n communities who meet and have their own places of worship in the town.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} There is no longer a synagogue in Bedford, but Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue |url=http://www.bedfordshire-ps.org.uk/}}</ref> based in [[Luton]], meets in Bedford once a month for the town's Jewish community. The nearest [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] synagogue is the Luton United Synagogue, a [[Lubavitch]] synagogue in Luton.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luton United Synagogue |url=https://lutonsynagogue.org.uk/index.php?page=home |access-date=16 February 2023 |website=lutonsynagogue.org.uk}}</ref> Bedford is the former headquarters of the [[Panacea Society]], founded in 1919, who believed that the town would have an important role in the [[Second Coming]] of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]], and that Bedford was the original location of the [[Garden of Eden]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Panacea Society |url=http://www.panacea-society.org/home.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522122521/http://www.panacea-society.org/home.htm |archive-date=22 May 2013 |access-date=7 January 2013}}</ref>
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