The National Piping Centre, Glasgow

Built in 1872 the Cowcaddens Free Church was designed in the Italianate style of the day, with a Tuscan tower although the building was Greek in proportion.  The pediment is supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters, to give the illusion of a classic temple sitting on a strong rusticated base. It opened as the National Piping Centre after extensive renovation in 1996. The conversion and alteration includes rehearsal spaces, an auditorium, and the Museum of Piping. The building next door is a linked small hotel and lovely little restaurant - The Pipers' Tryst. The renovation has maintained an important piece of Glasgow's ecclesiastical heritage. 
Personally, my grandfather the Rev. Tom Notman, was the minister here during the height of the Depression in the 1930s, and my mother recalled walking home with him as a child to the manse in Holyrood Crescent, along Great Western Road after the Sunday morning service. 
As he visited his parishioners, living up dark closes in the endless rows of drab tenements, he would have witnessed firsthand the extreme overcrowding and struggle for survival against the odds. Yet, the church thrived - perhaps a response to his compassionate, ernest, humanitarian approach. Under his leadership it became "one of the strongest, most throughly organised and fruitful congregations in the whole (free) church."