Church of St Edward the Martyr, Brookwood
St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church is a True Orthodox Church in Brookwood, Surrey, England.
| Church of St. Edward the Martyr | |
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| St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church | |
_(2).JPG) The church from the southwest | |
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| 51°17′58″N 0°37′27″W / 51.2995°N 0.6241°W | |
| OS grid reference | SU9591256552 |
| Country | England |
| Language(s) | Greek, Church Slavonic |
| Denomination | True Orthodoxy |
| Previous denomination | |
| Religious order | Saint Edward Brotherhood |
| Website | saintedwardbrotherhood |
| History | |
| Relics held | Edward the Martyr |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Cyril Tubbs, Arthur Messer |
| Completed | 1909 |
The monastic Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood Cemetery in 1982 to prepare and care for a new Church in a fitting grade I landscape[1] in which the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr, the King of England who was murdered in 978 and who was succeeded by force by Ethelred the Unready, were eventually enshrined in 1988. It has two communities:
- A small monastic community who chant the services of the church daily at the shrine
- Orthodox Christians who form a mission parish.[2] These Christians supplement the congregation on Sundays and feast days.[3]
St. Edward's is currently under the jurisdiction of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece (GOC-K), a Greek Old Calendarists True Orthodox Church headed by Archbishop Kallinikos of Athens.[3] It became part of this jurisdiction in 2014 following the merger of the Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance), of which it had been a part since leaving the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 2007,[3] with the GOC-K.
Transport links
edit- Rail
The church is 600 metres (2,000 ft) south-east of Brookwood railway station via a main path.
- Road
The church is 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Junction 3 of the M3 and is close to the gates of the country's largest cemetery, on the A322 road.[2]
Gallery
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The Shrine of St Edward the Martyr -
The baptismal font -
The iconostasis
References
edit- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1001265)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
- ^ a b "St Edward the Martyr". The Brookwood Cemetery Society. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ a b c "Saint Edward Brotherhood". Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
External links
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