Religion
The Royal Borough has a number of notable Christian churches, including:
- Brompton Oratory - Roman Catholic
- Chelsea Old Church (All Saints) - Church of England
- Holy Trinity Brompton - Church of England
- St Columba's, Pont Street - Church of Scotland
- St Luke's Church, Chelsea, Sydney Street - Church of England
- St Mary Abbots - Church of England
- St Sophia's Cathedral, London - Greek Orthodox Church
It is also home to a small Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, several mosques and the Sikh Central Gurudwara in Holland Park.
According to the 2001 Census, 24% of the borough identified themselves as being non-religious, or chose not to state their faith.
Read more about this topic: Royal Borough Of Kensington And Chelsea
Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.”
—Richard Chase (b. 1914)
“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)