Temple Church

The Temple Church, a royal peculiar in the , is a church in the Inner and located between Fleet Street and the in , England.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: 12th-century church in London built for and by the Knights Templar
  • Also known as: “Temple Church, London” and “The Temple Church”
  • Address: Temple, London, EC4Y 7BB

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Middle Temple.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Garden
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The Honourable Society of the , commonly known simply as , is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, and . is situated 590 feet southwest of Temple Church.

Museum
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Prince Henry's Room is situated on the first floor at the front of No. 17 Fleet Street, . The house is one of the few surviving buildings in the dating from before the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Temple and Blackfriars.

Quarter
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The is an area or precinct of the surrounding Church. It is one of the main legal districts in London and a notable centre for English law, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Quarter
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is in , specifically the south-west corner of the .

Neighborhood
was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of , England; an ecclesiastical version remains. The parish was split between the Liberty of Westminster and the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Temple Church

Latitude
51.51326° or 51° 30′ 48″ north
Longitude
-0.11026° or 0° 6′ 37″ west
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
Inception
1185
Open location code
9C3XGV7Q+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 128454313
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Geo­Names ID
6618530
Wiki­data ID
Q1429312
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Temple Church” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Temple Church”
  • Belarusian: “Храмавая царква”
  • Bengali: “টেম্পল গির্জা”
  • Catalan: “Església del Temple”
  • Chinese: “圣殿教堂”
  • Chinese: “聖殿教堂”
  • Czech: “Templářský kostel”
  • Danish: “Tempelkirken”
  • Danish: “Temple Church”
  • Dutch: “Temple Church”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسة المعبد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه المعبد”
  • Esperanto: “Templana Preĝejo”
  • Finnish: “Temple Church”
  • French: “Eglise du Temple”
  • French: “église du Temple”
  • French: “Église du Temple”
  • German: “Temple Church”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית ההיכל”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית טמפל”
  • Hungarian: “Temple Church”
  • Indonesian: “Temple Church”
  • Italian: “chiesa del Tempio”
  • Italian: “Chiesa del Tempio”
  • Italian: “Temple Church”
  • Japanese: “テンプル教会”
  • Korean: “템플 교회”
  • Macedonian: “Храмова црква”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Temple Church”
  • Norwegian: “Temple Church”
  • Persian: “کلیسای تمپل”
  • Polish: “Temple Church”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja do Templo”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja Templária”
  • Russian: “Темпл-чёрч”
  • Russian: “Храм Темпл”
  • Russian: “Церковь Тамплиеров”
  • Russian: “Церковь Темпл”
  • Russian: “Церковь Темпла”
  • Spanish: “iglesia del Temple”
  • Spanish: “Iglesia del Temple”
  • Spanish: “Temple Church”
  • Swedish: “Temple Church”
  • Turkish: “Temple Kilisesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Темпл”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣殿教堂”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖殿教堂”

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