Westminster Abbey

westminster abbey

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Westminster abbey is a place that is worshiped by many people.It is a place of peace It is one of the most important monasteries of all time.. There is even a choir, monks priests and bishops. Westminster abbey was originally designed to be not only a great abbey and place of worchip but also a place for coronations and burials of royals. Actitellually speaking it is a place of wonder and genius design.

An architectural masterpiece of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, Westminster Abbey also presents a unique pageant of British history - the Confessor’s Shrine, the tombs of Kings and Queens, and countless memorials to the famous and the great. It has been the setting for every Coronation since 1066 and for numerous other Royal occasions. Today it is still a church dedicated to regular worship and to the celebration of great events in the life of the nation. Neither a cathedral nor a parish church, Westminster Abbey is a “royal peculiar” under the jurisdiction of a Dean and Chapter, subject only to the Sovereign.
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