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.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)