London Mithraeum, Temple Court, London 1972
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The London Mithraeum at Temple Court in 1972, shown in its open-air reconstructed form beside Queen Victoria Street, with office workers and visitors pausing to look over the low Roman walls. Discovered in 1954 during post-war rebuilding in the City, the Temple of Mithras was dismantled and re-erected here in 1962, a short distance from its original Walbrook site, where it became one of London’s most unusual archaeological displays. Behind the railings are some telling early-1970s street details, including the stone façade of the Bank of London and South America and the bright Dolly Girl shopfront beyond, which place this fragment of Roman London squarely within the modern commercial City. The reconstruction later drew criticism for its inaccuracy, and the remains were eventually moved back close to their original location when the present London Mithraeum was created beneath Bloomberg’s headquarters.
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