Entrance to Chapel & Prayer Room

London Airport Chapel
Gatwick Airport
London, England

"Our chapel & prayer rooms, located in both North and South Terminal, are open 24 hours a day to people of all faiths for private prayer and meditation. 

"Christian services are held regularly by the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Free Church chaplains. Buddhist services are held every Monday and on significant dates for major traditions. Services usually last 25 minutes, and details are posted on the noticeboard outside the chapel and on the chaplaincy website.

"The South Terminal chapel is on the third floor level near Caffè Nero (before security).

"he North Terminal chapel is on the first floor, before the entrance to Hampton by Hilton. "(Link 1.)

Chapel & Prayer Room

"Aside from a daily roster of services for various denominations and faiths, the Chaplaincy team serves the airport in a variety of ways including helping passengers, staff and visitors in matters spiritual, emotional and practical, often working with Travel Care, the airport charity assisting those who have missed planes, lost passports or otherwise run into problems. In major and minor emergencies, chaplaincy staff are trained to work with other emergency services to support passengers, families and staff, coordinating with the wider Emergency Responders network in Sussex.

"The Chaplaincy has played an active role during emergency situations over the years:
2004: Asian Tsunami
2011: Libyan crisis
2012: Blizzard closure and airport dig-out
2014: Virgin Airways emergency landing
2015: Tunisian terrorist attack urgent repatriation flights

"Some duties are less onerous, for example greeting Pope John Paul 11 when he arrived for his epic visit to Britain in 1982.

"The multifaith core of the chaplaincy mission is also continually developing with the recent addition of a Buddhist lay priest and a Muslim faith leader, offering regular services and pastoral support. Despite this growing diversity, the Gatwick Chaplaincy remains a mission primarily concerned with each and all of the 30,000 people routinely working in or passing through the airport, rather than specific denominations." (Link 2.)

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Photos: Taken by RW  in Oct. 2018 with Iphone while travelling in London.                                                                

Link 1: https://www.gatwickairport.com/at-the-airport/passenger-services/chapel-prayer-room/

Link 2: https://gatwickairportchapel.org/wordpress/

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God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)

St. Dunstan & All Saints Anglican Church

St. Dunstan & All Saints
the Parish Church of Stepney
London, England

"St Dunstan's, Stepney is an Anglican Church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years. It is located in Stepney High Street, in Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Church Sign

"In about AD 952 the Bishop of London — who is also Lord of the Manor of Stepney — replaced the existing wooden structure with a stone church dedicated to All the Saints. In 1029, when Dunstan was canonised, the church was rededicated to St Dunstan and All Saints, a dedication it has retained.

"Up until the early fourteenth century the church served the whole of Middlesexeast of the City of London. Then new churches were built at Whitechapel and Bow. The existing building is the third on the site and was built of Kentish ragstone mainly in the fifteenth century (although the chancel dates from 200 years earlier). A porch and octagonal parish room were added in 1872.

"The church was restored extensively in 1899, at a cost of £5,600. The vestries and some of the main building were destroyed by fire on 12 October 1901, including the organ which had carvings by Grinling Gibbons. The restoration cost £7,084, and the church was re-opened in June 1902 by the Bishop of Stepney.

St. Dunstan and All Saints Anglican Church

"The ring of ten bells, the heaviest weighing 28¾ hundredweight, which hang in the belfry, were cast at the local Whitechapel Bell Foundry and are tuned to C#. The seven oldest bells were cast by Thomas Mears and Son, Whitechapel, in 1806. The bells were re-hung in 1899.^[1] Three were recast in 1952 when repairs were made to the tower.^[3] The bells are mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons: "When will that be, say the bells of Stepney."

St. Dunstan and All Saints Anglican Church

"The church has a long, traditional link with the sea and many sailors were buried here. It was once known as the 'Church of the High Seas'. " (Link.)

St. Dunstan & All Saints Anglican Church

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Photos: Taken by RW  in Oct. 2018 with Iphone while travelling in London.                                                                  

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dunstan%27s,_Stepney

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God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)