Located between Fleet-street and the River Thames.
The church was built by the Knights Templar and consecrated in 1185.
After the order was suppressed in 1307, it was handed over to the British Crown.
Video from Knights_Templar_ of_ Albion.
The Temple Church served as headquarters for the Knights Templar in England for over a century. All English members of the order we're sworn in here until 1307.
The Church was built in a round design inspired by the Holy Sepulcher and Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem.
Today the Temple church has the distinction of being personally under the jurisdiction of the British Queen and not the Diocese of London.
It serves the surrounding Inns of Courts, centers of the British legal professions.
There are nine tomb effigies located on the floor of the church, representing 9 Templar Knights buried there.
The round church is 55 feet (17 m) in diameter and contains within it a circle of the earliest known surviving free-standing Purbeck Marble columns
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🧵 The Forgotten Naples: Photographer Sam Gregg's stunning images reveal the overlooked side of the Italian city that is so strongly associated with the Camorra mafia.
Images originally published in the Daily Mail, January 20, 2020
"A Neapolitan resident poses at home in his Sunday best in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Naples remains a deeply religious city with Catholic iconography displayed prominently in the streets and people's homes."
"A little boy is told off by his mother under an image of Christ on the cross in the Spanish quarter of central Naples."
High-ranking Masons like Washington would have been instructed to think of God, not as a personal being, but as Jahbulon (the name is a merger of Yahweh, Baal, and Osiris).
Jahbulon is supposedly based on the god worshipped by ancient mystery schools going back thousands of...
...years and is not the same type of deity as the God of monotheism but rather a type of universal energy that can be used for both good or evil (similar to "The Force" from the Star Wars films).
This is the reason why various secret societies and occult groups are so big into… https://t.co/Bqbi0qSoaztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Do all high-ranking Freemasons and members of other secret societies truly believe in something like Jahbulon? Probably not but they are still obliged to know about it if permitted to reach such a level of initiation.
Can we say for certain that Washington believed in it, no,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
While many fundamentalists Churches and religions cower in fear and attack the concept of extraterrestrial life contacting humanity as 👹, The Catholic Church looks on Mankind's first contact as anything but threatening.
Despite having no official position on the existence of aliens, many priests who work in the Vatican have come out and stated that such beings are real and not demonic as some other Christian groups and leaders have claimed.
Among those working for the Vatican who were most outspoken about the existence of alien life, their continued contacts with humans, and the fact that these beings are not demonic was the late theologian and exorcist, Monsignor Corrado Balducci.
*chart compiled by the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
This chart doesn't mean that all 68 million Nones from that era weren't baptized or brought up in a church, only that by that time, they were unaffiliated.
Periods, where many Americans dropped out of organized religion aren't a new phenomenon though.
A century ago, Mussolini ordered his Fascist legions to begin their March on Rome, an event that would lead to his seizure of power over Italy. His rule over the country would last for over two decades.
Below, 🧵 on how American newspapers covered the Fascisti takeover.
"When Mussolini and His Blackshirt followers swept all Italy before Them"