Also known as Mazdayasna, it Is one the world's oldest religions, with its roots possibly stretching back to the second millennium B.C. Zoroastra is the Greek name for Zarathustra. Adherents believe in one supreme God, named Ahura Mazda. Its theology includes a duty to protect nature, which has led it be called the world's first ecological religion.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian Centre This art deco cinema building was designed in 1936 by F. E...
Evangelist. Born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. She married fellow methodist William Booth in 1855, and they embarked on a preaching tour of the country. Returning to London in 1864, t...
The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
A nearby information board gives: These ruins are all that remain of the palace of the powerful Bishops of Winchester, one of the largest and most important buildings in medieval London. Founded i...
This image is a screen grab from the British Pathe news film showing the aftermath of the bombing. Part of the building which was the rectory is still standing, towards the left.
The church on the Mile End Road was opened in 1903, the school, shown in this picture, behind the church, in 1896. Both funded by the Howard Family of Norfolk.
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