The London England Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The London Temple is located on the A22 Eastbourne Road /West Park Road, Newchapel, Surrey RH7 6NB.
The London Temple Visitors' Centre staffed by the England London Mission is now closed BUT there is one at the Hyde Park LDS Chapel
Exhibition Road 64-68 Princes Gate, London SW7 2PA.
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Surrounding the temple are 10 acres of formal grounds featuring Eden Brook on the southern border of the property and numerous stately oak trees. A picturesque pond sits to the southwest creating inspiring reflections of the temple both day and night.
Brief History: -
In 1952, President David O. McKay (9th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) authorised church officials to search for property to purchase for two temple sites in Europe…one in Switzerland and the other in England. In June 1953, a property owned by the Pears family (owners of the Pears Soap Manufacturers) was purchased by the church. President McKay and Edward Anderson (the temple architect), came to England and walked the grounds to determine the location of the temple.
The area President McKay finally selected was partially covered by a lily pond. Because of the high water table and soft nature of the ground it appeared completely unsuitable to support the grand structure they had in mind. After President McKay insisted that the spot he had indicated was the right spot further investigation was authorised. Engineers then, to their surprise, discovered that beneath the boggy pond was a natural shale platform at the proper depth to support the temple. The project engineer said “You could build the city of London on the site!”
Ground was broken on the 27th August 1955 and the temple was completed and dedicated on the 7th – 9th September 1958 by President McKay.
The London Temple is built of Portland Limestone.
In 1992, the temple was re-furbished and re-dedicated by the then First Counsellor of the First Presidency of the Church, President Gordon B. Hinckley.
The angel Moroni standing atop the spire was added in 2008.
The site where the London Temple stands, was known as Newchapel Farm and was listed in the Domesday Book of William the Conquerer.
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Axum: nighttime religious procession of the Mihilila thanksgiving celebration; replica of the Ark of the Covenant being carried in procession; picture of Virgin Mary and child Jesus; worshippers praying; religious ceremony; priest leading prayers; daytime procession of Mihilila; replica of Ark being carried back to chapel of St Mary Zion; Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarchate; cross; Patriarch Abune Paulos, head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, sot; Axum: the 'Guardian of the Ark' entering chapel; red curtain said to be shielding the Ark; representative of the Guardian of the Ark Tigrignia sot; crowns of Ethiopian kings; Guardian of the Ark turning pages of the 13th century historical book Keber Negest; picture of Menelik and Azariah taking the Ark from the Temple; picture of Menelik with the Ark crossing the Red Sea; picture of wall of water preventing King Solomon's soldiers from following; picture of Queen Sheba in Axum awaiting the Ark's arrival; picture of Menelik arriving with the Ark in Axum; St Mary Zion chapel; ruins of the first chapel; 17th century chapel; obelisks; small ancient obelisk; ancient broken obelisk; people walking; priest in yellow robe; woman kissing cross; priest blessing woman; boys with donkeys; vox pop Tigrignia sot; Lake Tana: Tana Kirkos island; men in papyrus boat heading for island; people waiting on shore; island monastery and monks; Gebrehana Gebremeskel, head priest, Amharic sot; island's chapel; head priest walking to and entering chapel; interior chapel; head priest standing in front of Holy of Holies; parchment of Ten Commandments; picture of Moses' hands outstretched; head priest unfolding parchment showing saints; Addis Ababa: house; international scholar Professor Richard Pankhurst seen through window; Professor Pankhurst sot; Axum: trumpeter; replica of Ark with priests leaving chapel; men with guns; boys with books and bell; musicians; procession; replica of Ark; women praying; replica of Ark taken into tent; drummers; tent and crowd; women clapping and singing; Sunset; interior tent church with sleeping and praying people; exterior nighttime children around fire; crowd on mountain; priest with replica of Ark conducting ceremony; faces reflected in water of modern version of Queen Sheba's bath; bath and people; musicians and boys on steps; musicians drumming; boys' faces; people watching; priest with cross blessing water; three candles being launched on water (APTN)
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Where is Christianity's Ark of the Covenant? Scholars have pondered its existence and location for centuries and theories about its resting place abound, a favourite location being Ethiopia. The Ark of the Covenant, the chest which God commanded be built to hold the tablets of the Ten Commandments, disappeared from Jerusalem after the destruction of King Solomon's Temple. It is central to the 3,000-year-old Ethiopian Orthodox Church and to the country's history. But here there's also a mystery, because there are two Ethiopian versions of what happened to the Ark.
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Cemeteries around the state are hallowed places that tell us a lot about our history, like Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, one of the country’s oldest and largest cemeteries that’s still in use today. Then we head up to Friendship Cemetery in Columbus where our national Memorial Day holiday has its roots. Down Highway 61 in Natchez, many of the state’s first settlers found their resting places. Finally, the haunting story of Henry Vick at Chapel of the Cross in Madison County plays a central role in that area’s history.
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Today, the wider complex accumulated during the centuries around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the church itself is shared among several Christian denominations and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for over 160 years, and some for much longer. The main denominations sharing property over parts of the church are the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Roman Catholic, and to a lesser degree the Coptic Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox. Meanwhile, Protestants, including Anglicans, have no permanent presence in the Church. Some Protestants prefer The Garden Tomb, elsewhere in Jerusalem, as a more evocative site to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
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Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2017, the city's estimated population was 309,180. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city. Known as the Twin Cities, the two form the core of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.6 million residents.Founded near historic Native American settlements as a trading and transportation center, the city rose to prominence when it was named the capital of the Minnesota Territory in 1849. The Dakota name for Saint Paul is Imnizaska. Though Minneapolis (Bdeota) is better-known nationally, Saint Paul contains the state government and other important institutions. Regionally, the city is known for the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild, and for the Science Museum of Minnesota. As a business hub of the Upper Midwest, it is the headquarters of companies such as Ecolab. Saint Paul, along with its Twin City, Minneapolis, is known for its high literacy rate. It was the only city in the United States with a population of 250,000 or more to see an increase in circulation of Sunday newspapers in 2007.The settlement originally began at present-day Lambert's Landing, but was known as Pig's Eye after Pierre Pig's Eye Parrant established a popular tavern there. When Lucien Galtier, the first Catholic pastor of the region, established the Log Chapel of Saint Paul (shortly thereafter to become the first location of the Cathedral of Saint Paul), he made it known that the settlement was now to be called by that name, as Saint Paul as applied to a town or city was well appropriated, this monosyllable is short, sounds good, it is understood by all Christian denominations.
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Valencia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:52 1 Name
00:04:14 2 Geography
00:04:23 2.1 Location
00:05:26 2.2 Climate
00:08:01 3 Economy
00:09:45 3.1 Port
00:10:53 3.2 Transport
00:12:01 3.3 Valencia Public Transportation Statistics
00:12:46 3.4 Tourism
00:15:17 4 Education
00:16:55 5 Demographics
00:18:16 6 Culture
00:19:57 6.1 Languages
00:22:55 6.2 Food
00:23:41 6.3 Festivals
00:25:10 7 History
00:25:19 7.1 Roman colony
00:25:54 7.2 Muslim rule
00:27:23 7.3 Christian conquest
00:29:03 7.4 17th century
00:29:46 7.5 18th century
00:31:31 7.6 19th century
00:34:57 7.7 20th century
00:38:29 7.8 21st century
00:39:59 8 Main sights
00:40:55 8.1 Architecture
00:42:30 8.2 The cathedral
00:45:33 8.3 Hospital
00:46:52 8.4 Medieval churches
00:48:01 8.5 Squares and gardens
00:49:39 8.6 Museums
00:51:54 9 Sport
00:52:03 9.1 Football
00:52:49 9.2 American Football
00:53:21 9.3 Motor sports
00:54:22 9.4 Rugby League
00:54:58 10 Districts
00:56:40 10.1 Other towns within the municipality of Valencia
00:57:14 11 People born in Valencia and Valencia province
01:01:25 12 Twin towns and sister cities
01:01:37 13 Friendship cities
01:01:51 14 See also
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Valencia (; Spanish: [baˈlenθja]), officially València (Valencian: [vaˈlensia]), on the east coast of Spain, is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 1.5–1.6 million people. Valencia is Spain's third largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 1.7 to 2.5 million depending on how the metropolitan area is defined. The Port of Valencia is the 5th busiest container port in Europe and the busiest container port on the Mediterranean Sea. The city is ranked at Gamma+ in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Valencia is integrated into an industrial area on the Costa del Azahar (Orange Blossom Coast).
Valencia was founded as a Roman colony by the consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus in 138 BC, and called Valentia Edetanorum. In 714 Moroccan and Arab Moors occupied the city, introducing their language, religion and customs; they implemented improved irrigation systems and the cultivation of new crops as well. Valencia was the capital of the Taifa of Valencia. In 1238 the Christian king James I of Aragon conquered the city and divided the land among the nobles who helped him conquer it, as witnessed in the Llibre del Repartiment. He also created a new law for the city, the Furs of Valencia, which were extended to the rest of the Kingdom of Valencia. In the 18th century Philip V of Spain abolished the privileges as punishment to the kingdom of Valencia for aligning with the Habsburg side in the War of the Spanish Succession. Valencia was the capital of Spain when Joseph Bonaparte moved the Court there in the summer of 1812. It also served as capital between 1936 and 1937, during the Second Spanish Republic.
The city is situated on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the Gulf of Valencia on the Mediterranean Sea. Its historic centre is one of the largest in Spain, with approximately 169 ha (420 acres); this heritage of ancient monuments, views and cultural attractions makes Valencia one of the country's most popular tourist destinations.
Due to its long history, this is a city with numerous popular celebrations and traditions, such as the Fallas (featuring the traditional Spanish dish paella), which were declared as Fiestas of National Tourist Interest of Spain in 1965 and Intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in November 2016. From 1991 to 2015, Rita Barberá Nolla was the mayor of the city, yet in 2015, Joan Ribó from Coalició Compromís, became mayor.
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Paris | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:42 1 Etymology
00:04:50 2 History
00:04:58 2.1 Origins
00:07:14 2.2 Middle Ages to Louis XIV
00:11:02 2.3 18th and 19th centuries
00:15:35 2.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:21:52 2.4.1 Terrorist attacks
00:23:30 3 Geography
00:25:48 3.1 Climate
00:27:54 4 Administration
00:28:03 4.1 City government
00:30:43 4.2 Métropole du Grand Paris
00:32:13 4.3 Regional government
00:33:05 4.4 National government
00:35:26 4.5 Police force
00:37:25 5 Cityscape
00:37:34 5.1 Urbanism and architecture
00:40:57 5.2 Housing
00:43:27 5.3 Paris and its suburbs
00:46:35 6 Demographics
00:50:23 6.1 Migration
00:53:19 6.2 Religion
00:54:52 7 Economy
00:59:53 7.1 Employment
01:03:10 7.2 Unemployment
01:03:41 7.3 Incomes
01:05:21 8 Tourism
01:06:29 8.1 Monuments and attractions
01:08:36 8.2 Hotels
01:10:02 9 Culture
01:10:10 9.1 Painting and sculpture
01:13:04 9.2 Photography
01:14:23 9.3 Museums
01:17:00 9.4 Theatre
01:19:37 9.5 Literature
01:22:40 9.6 Music
01:27:32 9.7 Cinema
01:29:01 9.8 Restaurants and cuisine
01:32:31 9.9 Fashion
01:33:33 9.10 Holidays and festivals
01:34:36 10 Education
01:37:19 10.1 Libraries
01:39:08 11 Sports
01:42:05 12 Infrastructure
01:42:14 12.1 Transport
01:43:02 12.1.1 Railways
01:43:32 12.1.2 Métro, RER and tramway
01:45:21 12.1.3 Air
01:47:47 12.1.4 Motorways
01:48:22 12.1.5 Waterways
01:48:51 12.1.6 Cycling
01:49:45 12.2 Electricity
01:50:40 12.3 Water and sanitation
01:52:12 12.4 Parks and gardens
01:53:50 12.5 Cemeteries
01:55:42 13 Healthcare
01:56:54 14 Media
01:58:35 15 International relations
01:58:45 15.1 Twin towns and partner cities
01:59:20 15.2 Other relationships
01:59:32 16 See also
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Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a population of 2,206,488. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.
The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2018 population of 12,246,234, or 18.2 percent of the population of France. Besides this,the Paris metropolitan area had a population of 12,532,901 in 2015.The Paris Region had a GDP of €681 billion (US$850 billion) in 2016, accounting for 31 percent of the GDP of France. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second-most expensive city in the world, behind Singapore and ahead of Zurich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva.The city is a major rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe after London Heathrow Airport with 69.5 million passengers in 2017) and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily, and is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, with 262 million passengers in 2015.Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2017, with 8.1 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, and the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site. Popular landmarks in the centre of the city include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, both on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand P ...
Cuisine of Paris | Wikipedia audio article
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Cuisine of Paris
00:03:34 1 Etymology
00:04:29 2 History
00:04:38 2.1 Origins
00:06:53 2.2 Middle Ages to Louis XIV
00:10:41 2.3 18th and 19th centuries
00:15:14 2.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:21:31 2.4.1 Terrorist attacks
00:23:09 3 Geography
00:25:27 3.1 Climate
00:27:33 4 Administration
00:27:42 4.1 City government
00:30:22 4.2 Métropole du Grand Paris
00:31:52 4.3 Regional government
00:32:44 4.4 National government
00:35:05 4.5 Police force
00:37:04 5 Cityscape
00:37:13 5.1 Urbanism and architecture
00:40:36 5.2 Housing
00:43:06 5.3 Paris and its suburbs
00:46:14 6 Demographics
00:50:02 6.1 Migration
00:52:58 6.2 Religion
00:54:31 7 Economy
00:59:32 7.1 Employment
01:02:49 7.2 Unemployment
01:03:20 7.3 Incomes
01:05:00 8 Tourism
01:06:09 8.1 Monuments and attractions
01:08:15 8.2 Hotels
01:09:41 9 Culture
01:09:49 9.1 Painting and sculpture
01:12:43 9.2 Photography
01:14:02 9.3 Museums
01:16:39 9.4 Theatre
01:19:16 9.5 Literature
01:22:19 9.6 Music
01:27:11 9.7 Cinema
01:28:40 9.8 Restaurants and cuisine
01:32:10 9.9 Fashion
01:33:12 9.10 Holidays and festivals
01:34:16 10 Education
01:36:59 10.1 Libraries
01:38:47 11 Sports
01:41:44 12 Infrastructure
01:41:53 12.1 Transport
01:42:41 12.1.1 Railways
01:43:12 12.1.2 Métro, RER and tramway
01:45:01 12.1.3 Air
01:47:26 12.1.4 Motorways
01:48:01 12.1.5 Waterways
01:48:30 12.1.6 Cycling
01:49:24 12.2 Electricity
01:50:19 12.3 Water and sanitation
01:51:51 12.4 Parks and gardens
01:53:29 12.5 Cemeteries
01:55:21 13 Healthcare
01:56:33 14 Media
01:58:14 15 International relations
01:58:24 15.1 Twin towns and partner cities
01:58:59 15.2 Other relationships
01:59:12 16 See also
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Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a population of 2,206,488. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.
The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2018 population of 12,246,234 people, or 18.2 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €681 billion (US$850 billion) in 2016, accounting for 31 percent of the GDP of France. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second-most expensive city in the world, behind Singapore and ahead of Zurich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva.The city is a major rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe after London Heathrow Airport with 69.5 million passengers in 2017) and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily, and is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, with 262 million passengers in 2015.Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2017, with 8.1 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, and the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site. Popular landmarks in the centre of the city include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, both on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. Paris recei ...
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