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Worship & Music
St Paul’s Cathedral has been here for over 1,400 years. It has been built and rebuilt five times, and always its main purpose has been as a place of worship and prayer.

Visit Us
St Paul's, with its world-famous dome, is an iconic feature of the London skyline. Step inside and you can enjoy the Cathedral's awe-inspiring interior, and uncover fascinating stories about its history.
Learning & Faith
Lifelong learning is a core part of the our work, delivered through a variety of events by St Paul's Institute, and the Cathedral's Adult Learning and Schools & Family Learning departments.

History & Collections
For more than 1,400 years, a Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood at the highest point in the City. The present Cathedral is the masterpiece of Britain's most famous architect Sir Christopher Wren.

Support Us
Behind the scenes, the cost of caring for St Paul's and continuing to deliver our central ministry and work is enormous and the generosity of our supporters is critical.

Venue Bookings
Widely considered to be one of the world’s most beautiful buildings and a powerful symbol of the splendour of London, St Paul’s Cathedral is a breathtaking events venue.
Faith
12:00pm | Open for private prayer |
12:30pm | Eucharist |
3:00pm | Evening Prayer |
3:30pm | Private prayer ends and Cathedral closes |
The Christian Faith
St Paul’s Cathedral seeks to enable people in all their diversity to encounter the transforming presence of God in Jesus Christ.
The Church has been described as a ‘school for relating’, a place where humans can learn to relate more deeply to God, other people and themselves.
The Church is made up of a wide diversity of people across the world and we often have different views, but what we agree on is what matters
most:
God
As the creator of all that is, God loves us all with a generosity and faithfulness beyond our understanding. God invites us to trust that love and
to live life with a faith which, though often confused or doubtful, is a journey on which we learn more about God’s reality, mystery and passion
for us and all his creation. Christians believe that it was in Jesus Christ that the face of God was most clearly seen. God was made visible in him
by becoming human. The life, teachings, death and resurrection of Christ all communicate the endless love and creativity of God, working against
what is evil in humanity with a fidelity towards his creation which not even death can challenge.
God’s reckless and sacrificial love, seen in Jesus, continues to breathe life into the Church and world through God’s Holy Spirit, comforting us and challenging us to live as authentic followers of Christ with faith, hope and love. The Spirit relentlessly confronts all our fantasies and prejudices with truth. We read about the ways in which God has related to his stubborn, fragile and complex people in the pages of the Bible - a collection of sacred texts in which we read God’s love between the lines and are inspired by the faith of those before us. It is a book which not so much answers all our questions as questions all our answers by voicing a wisdom and imagination that show the limits of believing the world is ultimately here by pure chance.
Others
Jesus said that people should be able to tell a follower of his by the love that person has for others. Christian spirituality teaches us that a
human self is most itself when not being selfish. In his life on earth, Jesus upheld the dignity of each person he encountered, especially those
who were marginalised, disliked, blamed and suffered forms of discrimination. Jesus entrusted his future in the world to his friends, his
followers, and therefore the Church now seeks to oppose all that desecrates humans and all that threatens justice, peace, the common good and the
future of the environment.
One of the earliest followers of Jesus, St Paul, wrote that God’s Spirit reveals himself in human beings in love, joy, peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (letter to the Galatians 5, 22-23).
Ourself
Christian faith believes that God has given us each the gift of being and that the gift we are asked to give in return is our becoming, who we
become as human beings. God loves us just the way we are but God loves so much he doesn’t want us to stay like that. Our life is a consistent,
sometimes painful, turning towards God’s truth and love. This is often called ‘conversion of life’. This conversion begins for the Christian with
baptism when all the voices of the world that would grab our attention, the messages that would belittle or control us, are drowned out under the
water. We emerge with a new take of breath and we now listen to the only voice which matters, the one which comes from God saying that we are
loved, cherished and of great value. Our life is then an invitation to live up to this truth and not to live down to all the other things that
people would like us to believe about ourselves.
What Christians do
As well as having water poured over their head in baptism, Christians also read the Bible, gather to share bread and wine together in memory of the
death and resurrection of Christ (known as the Eucharist, Mass or Lord’s Supper), and pray. These four basic activities have remained constant and
indispensable for the majority of those who call themselves Christians. They nourish and feed the life of faith so that we can be more faithful to
our calling to imitate Jesus Christ in our own 21st century.
To discover more about these activities we encourage you to talk with a Christian, your local parish clergy or with a priest in the Cathedral when
you visit.
Want to read more?
We recommend ‘Being Christian’ by Rowan Williams (SPCK,
2014) as a short introduction to living as a Christian today.
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Mosaic detail - Christ the King
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Tree of Life
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Dome painting, St Paul shipwrecked on Malta
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Virgin and Child by Josefina de Vasconcellos
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Trumpeting angel on the pulpit
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