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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

Converted from a redundant Glasgow church, Oran Mor is a multi-purpose arts, music and events venue at the top of Byres Road in the city's West End, opposite the Botanic Gardens. Its name, Scottish Gaelic for "great melody of life" or "big song", reflects the ambition of its creator, the publican Colin Beattie, to turn a derelict building into a cultural centre wrapped around a very good pub. The building was founded as the Kelvinside Free Church, its foundation stone laid in September 1862, an...