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The church insurance market is controlled by a handful of specialists all fiercely competing for the limited amount of new business. David Fanning spoke to the leading insurers.

There are nearly 40,000 churches and places of worship in the UK,
ranging from the Church of England's 16,000 premises to the 27 Russian
Orthodox churches. If the 1700 gurdwaras, mosques, synagogues and temples
of the Sikhs, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists are added in, it might
seem like a fairly open and potentially profitable insurance market.


Nothing could be further from the truth, according to the leading church
insurance specialists. "This is a highly competitive market and new
business