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London Mithraeum

Roman temple (Mithraeum), mid-3rd century, City of London

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The London Mithraeum, also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, is a Roman Mithraeum that was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during a building's construction in 1954. The entire site was relocated to permit continued construction and this temple of the mystery god Mithras became perhaps the most famous 20th-century Roman discovery in London.

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Wooden tablets and earliest documents

AD 57

Temple construction

c. AD 240

Rededication

early 4th century

Inscription date

AD 307–310

Tauroctony relief found

1889

Discovery and excavation

September 1954

Relocation to Temple Court

1962

Museum of London Archaeology excavations

2010–2014

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United Kingdom

Coordinates

51.51° N, -0.09° E