St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral (has a Bishop) and is one of Londons most visited sites...Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married there...I think the best view of it is from the Millenium Bridge..

St. Paul's Cathedral is actually the 5th one....the first being built in the year 604 AD..seems like it was doomed..lol..it burnt down even tho it was made of stone and was robbed, defaced, over and over again, and later, radical Protestant preachers rid of interior decorations, that it has no artifacts left...

Well...remember the great fire of London in 1666?... that same old fire that keeps cropping up?? There was a few Great Fires too...but this one's the 1666 one...Yep..Old St. Paul's was gutted in that fire, and Christopher Wren, the renown English architect re-built it..lets hope this one will stay intact..the Germans tried to bomb it during the Blitz (the bombing of London by the Germans in World War II) and a bomb actually hit it but it was a time delayed bomb and it was defused...

It's really a big church with 3 small chapels and the main chapel is under the dome part..the dome is 365 feet high.... The Whispering Gallery runs around the interior of the dome and if you put your head to the wall you can hear someones whisper on the other side..

Christopher Wren is buried there and on the wall above his tomb in the crypt is written, "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you).