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City Temple

United Kingdom City of London Grade II listed building
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The City Temple is a Nonconformist church on Holborn Viaduct in London. The current minister is Rodney Woods. The church is part of the Thames North Synod of the United Reformed Church and is a member of the Evangelical Alliance.

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The City Temple is most famous as the preaching place of the 20th century liberal theologian Leslie Weatherhead. Other notable preachers have included R. J.

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Campbell, Joseph Fort Newton, Thomas Goodwin and Joseph Parker. The first church building on the present site was built in 1874. The congregation was founded much earlier; the traditional date is 1640 but some evidence suggests it was founded as early as the 1560s by Puritans.

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Destroyed by bombing during the Second World War, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1958.