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| Christ Church Sptialfields, 2007, MW, Buy this Photo. London Photographer Blog, Photograph of the Day, London photo exhibition of the month, Submit your photography to Ravish London, Buy this photograph on a t-shirt! |
| Christ Chuch, Spitalfields @www.ravishlondon.com Christ Church sits on the dirty dusty traffic strewn wasteland of Commercial Street in Spitalfields, opposite a pub. A big white piece of chunky Baroque church, for most it serves more as a marker of the way to Brick Lane than a place to worship God. The church was built in 1729 by Nicholas Hawksmoor who studied under the tutelage of Sir Christopher Wren. The church was built as part of a governmental programme passed by parliament in 1711 to build 50 new churches. Spitalfields has received large numbers of Hugenot, Jewish and Bengali immigrants over the past five hundred years. According to one website the magnificence of the church was an attempt by the Church of England to push home its presence in an area under threat from Low Church French Protestants. In 1957 the Church was closed for thirty years. I met a homeless guy a while back who told me the church had dungeons, which they used to use to keep heretics and witches in. |
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| Telephone Number | | Sunday Services: 10.30 am each week Tuesday Service: 1.10-1.40 lunch time service; Open to the public: Sunday 1-4pm, Tuesday 10-4pm; Other week days 10-4 when not in use. |
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