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The Temple Church, a royal peculiar in the Church of England, [2] is a church in the Inner and Middle Temples located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar for their English headquarters in the Temple precinct. It was consecrated on 10 February 1185 [3] by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem. [4]
In English "temple" is the normal term for them. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the site where the First Temple of Solomon and the Second Temple were built. At the center of the structure was the Holy of Holies where only the High Priest could enter. The Temple Mount is now the site of the Islamic edifice, the Dome of the Rock (c. 690 CE).
Middle Temple (like the Inner Temple) is one of the few remaining liberties, an old name for a geographic division. It is an independent extra-parochial area , [ 43 ] historically not governed by the City of London Corporation [ 44 ] (and is today regarded as a local authority for most purposes) [ 45 ] and equally outside the ecclesiastical ...
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ , Modern: Bēt haMīqdaš, Tiberian: Bēṯ hamMīqdāš; Arabic: بيت المقدس, Bayt al-Maqdis), refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple ...
Nearly any site in England which uses the name "Temple," can probably be traced to Templar origins. The Temple Church still stands on the site of the old Preceptory in London, and effigies of Crusading Templars can still be seen there today. The land was later rented to lawyers who use it today as Inner Temple and Middle Temple.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (also commonly known as the Neasden Temple) is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London, England. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, the Swaminarayan mandir has been described as being Britain's first authentic Hindu temple. [ 1 ]
Temple Church, also known as Holy Cross Church, (grid reference) is a ruined church in Redcliffe, Bristol, England. It is on the site of a previous, round church of the Knights Templar , which they built on land granted to them in the second quarter of the 12th century by Robert of Gloucester .
The Temple is an area or precinct of the City of London surrounding Temple 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.