London is blessed with an extraordinary quantity and rich variety of places of worship. Our city possesses thousands of churches, several hundred synagogues and mosques, and many Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist temples – and yet there is only one surviving Mithraeum (a temple to the god Mithras).
But, a little under two millennia ago the number of people who worshipped Mithras would have rivalled those who believed in Christianity. Roman London, a large trading city filled with merchants, administrators and soldiers, would have been the home to many who favoured the mysterious cult of the warrior god.
