27 March 2024

A guide to my visits
to London churches
and other religious
places of worship

Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt Saint Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2024)

Patrick Comerford

In previous postings, I have summarised and listed cathedrals, churches and chapels I have visited in Limerick, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Oxford, and other places, with hyper-links to my blog postings about each church I have visited in those places.

In a similar way, I have provided guides to the synagogues I have visited across the world.

Since my teens, I have also visited countless churches, chapels and cathedrals in London, as well as synagogues and mosques, and I have been blogging about them since about 2007. However, until now, I have provided no one posting with links to the blogs about each building I have visited and written about.

This posting is an effort to remedy this and provide an accessible index to those blog postings. There are over 90 churches and church sites, as well as 23 synagogues and three mosques.

I hope to continue to update this posting with links to each new posting from now on.

Cathedrals in London:

1, All Saints’ Cathedral (Greek Orthodox), Camden Town (8 November 2022).

2, Saint George’s Cathedral (Roman Catholic), Southwark (1 September 2019) and here (29 October 2023).

3, Saint Paul’s Cathedral (Church of England) (9 May 2021).

4, Southwark Cathedral (Church of England) (3 December (2007), here (29 April 2016), here (1 September 2019), here (4 September 2023) and here (3 November 2023).

5, Westminster Abbey (Church of England) (11 July 2019) and here (19 August 2019).

6, Westminster Cathedral (Roman Catholic) (26 November 2018).

All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street, known for its architecture, liturgy, interior, rich decoration and music (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2023)

Church of England (Anglican) churches:

7, All Hallows by the Tower (16 August 2022).

8, All Hallows, Bread Street (16 September 2021).

9, All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street (23 September 2023).

10, All Souls’ Church, Langham Place (2 November 2023).

11, Christ Church, Blackfriars (21 September 2023).

12, Christ Church, Greyfriars (12 May 2017) and here (17 September 2021).

13, Christ Church, Spitalfields (2 February 2018) and here (29 May 2021).

14, Christ the Saviour, Ealing Broadway (15 August 2012).

15, Harvard Chapel, Southwark Cathedral (4 November 2023).

16, (former) Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories (27 June 2023).

17, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea (28 September 2022).

18, Queen’s Chapel, Saint James’s Palace (11 July 2019).

19, Royal Foundation of Saint Katharine (23 November 2016) and here (11 July 2019).

20, Saint Alphage’s Church (24 January 2020).

21, Saint Alban the Martyr, Holborn (19 February 2024).

22, Saint Andrew, Holborn (7 June 2023).

23, Saint Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe (12 May 2017) and here (5 September 2021).

24, Saint Augustine, Watling Street, tower (22 May 2018), and here (18 September 2021).

25, Saint Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield (21 February 2024).

26, Saint Benet Fink, Royal Exchange (19 September 2021).

27, Saint Benet Paul’s Wharf (13 May 2017).

28, Saint Botolph without Aldersgate (25 January 2020).

29, Saint Botolph without Aldgate (27 January 2020) and here (29 October 2022).

30, Saint Botolph-without-Bishopsgate (2 February 2009) and here (22 November 2016).

31, Saint Bride’s, Fleet Street (6 September 2021).

32, Saint Christopher-le-Stocks, Threadneedle Street (20 September 2021).

33, Saint Clement Danes, The Strand (28 October 2022).

34, Saint Columba’s House chapel, Maybury Hill, Woking (22 May 2021).

35, Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney (13 February 2023).

36, Saint Dunstan-in-the-East (13 August 2022).

37, Saint Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street (22 February 2024).

38, Saint Edmund, King and Martyr, Lombard Street (5 February 2020) and here (7 September 2021).

39, Saint Elsyng Spital (tower) (24 January 2020).

40, Saint Ethelburga-the-Virgin, Bishopsgate (1 April 2018).

41, Saint George, Holborn (6 July 2022).

42, Saint George, Southwark (16 May 2019).

43, Saint George-in-the-East (22 November 2016).

44, Saint Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street (27 October 2022).

45, Saint Lawrence Jewry (29 September 2016) and here (8 September 2021).

46, Saint Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street (17 August 2022).

47, Saint Margaret Lothbury (30 September 2016) and here (9 September 2021).

48, Saint Margaret Pattens (15 August 2022).

49, Saint Margaret’s, Westminster (20 November 2012) and here (21 May 2021).

50, Saint Martin in the Fields (26 February 2024) and here (27 May 2021).

51, Saint Martin within Ludgate (25 January 2020) and here (10 September 2021).

52, Saint Mary Aldermary (14 May 2017) and here (10 September 2021).

53, (former) Abbey of the Minoresses of Saint Mary of the Order of Saint Clare (27 June 2023).

54, Saint Mary at Hill (14 August 2022).

55, Saint Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside (11 May 2017) and here (12 September 2021).

56, Saint Mary le Strand (25 February 2024).

57, (former) Saint Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel (17 February 2020).

58, Saint Mary Somerset (tower), Lambeth Hill (22 May 2018) and here (21 September 2021).

59, Saint Mary-within-Cripplegate (24 January 2020).

60, Saint Mary Woolnoth (15 May 2018) and here (22 September 2021).

61, Saint Matthew, Friday Street (23 September 2021).

62, Saint Matthew, Westminster (1 July 2011).

63, Saint Michael, Bassishaw (24 September 2021).

64, Saint Michael’s Church, Chester Square (1 October 2023).

65, Saint Michael’s Church, Cornhill (28 September 2023).

66, Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey (13 May 2017) and here (13 September 2021).

67, Saint Olave’s Church, corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane (27 February 2023).

68, Saint Olave Jewry (tower) (September 2016) and here (25 September 2021).

69, (The former) Saint Pancras, Soper Lane (10 July 2022).

70, Saint Pancras New Church, near Euston Station (7 November 2022).

71, Saint Pancras Old Church (15 June 2022).

72, Saint Peter’s Church, Ealing (20 August 2012).

73, Saint Stephen Walbrook (30 May 2018), also here (16 February 2019), here (14 September 2021) and here (14 May 2022).

74, (former) Saint Thomas, Southwark (31 October 2023).

75, Saint Vedast-alias-Foster (24 February 2017) and here (15 September 2021).

76, The Temple Church (24 February 2024).

77, USPG Chapel, USPG offices, Southwark (20 March 2021) and here (4 March 2020).

78, Saint Vedast Foster Lane or Saint Vedast-alias-Foster (24 February 2017).

Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Ealing, is the first Benedictine abbey in Greater London since the Reformation (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Christian Science Church:

79, The Cadogan Hall, Chelsea, former Christian Science Church (5 October 2022).

Reformed Church traditions:

80, Dutch Church, Austin Friars (16 May 2018).

81, (former) Huguenot church, Brick Lane (23 January 2020).

82, Stepney Meeting House, United Reformed Church (14 February 2023).

Roman Catholic Church:

83, Ealing Abbey (14 August 2012) and here (6 January 2013).

84, The Kairos Centre chapel, Maryfield Convent, Richmond (22 November 2018), and here (22 May 2021).

85, Saint Mary Moorfields (22 January 2020).

86, Saint Mellitus Church, Islington (11 July 2022).

See also:

87, Royal Peculiars (11 July 2019)

Church-linked buildings:

88, Lambeth Palace (27 July 2011).

89, Salters’ Hall, Saint Swithin’s Lane, Presbyterian meeting place, 1700s (24 January 2020).

90, Southwark Deanery (2 August 2023).

91, Winchester Palace (5 June 2023).

Bevis Marks Synagogue … the only synagogue in Europe that has held regular services continuously for more than 300 years (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Other religious traditions:

Judaism:

1, (site of) the Great Synagogue, Old Jewry (29 April 2016)

2, Kehillas Ya’akov, Commercial Road, Stepney (1 February 2018)

3, (site of) a synagogue at Threadneedle Street (17 February 2019)

4, The Bevis Marks Synagogue (22 January 2020)

5, (site of) Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue, Whitechapel (23 January 2020)

6, (site of) former Brick Lane Synagogue (23 January 2020)

7, (site of former) Creechurch Lane Synagogue (6 March 2020)

8, (site of former) Great Synagogue, Duke’s Lane (6 March 2020)

9, Sandy’s Row Synagogue (9 March 2020)

10, Princelet Street Synagogue (10 March 2020)

11, The Spital Square Poltava Synagogue, Heneage Street (24 February 2023)

12, (former) Artillery Lane Synagogue (28 February 2023)

13, (former) Gun Street Synagogue, Spitalfields (1 March 2023)

14, The East London Central Synagogue, also known as Nelson Street Synagogue or Nelson Street Sfardish Synagogue (2 March 2023)

15, the Konin Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

16, the Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

17, the Poltava Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

18, the Brethren of Suwalki Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

19, Hanbury Street Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

20, the Lovers of Peace Synagogue and the Voice of Jacob Synagogue, Hanbury Street (3 March 2023)

21, (former) Hambro’ Synagogue (6 March 2023)

22, (former) New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street (17 March 2023)

23, the Central Synagogue, Great Portland Street, London (19 May 2023)

Islam:

1, Brick Lane Mosque, formerly London Great Mosque (23 January 2020)

2, East London Mosque, Whitechapel Road (23 January 2020).

3, The Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking (28 November, 2019).



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