{"id":343,"date":"2006-02-26T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=343"},"modified":"2006-02-26T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T14:21:49","slug":"thats-not-a-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/02\/thats-not-a-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not a Temple&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite have lots of signs even a bus stop named after it, I really think they should have called them the Remains of the Temple of Mithras instead of just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temple_of_Mithras,_London\">The Temple of Mithras<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo below, there really isn&#8217;t much of a temple. This one was moved (almost all of these were below the ground) was moved to Temple Court on Queen Victoria Street and historians believe that it was built in the middle of the 2nd Century AD.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/TempleOfMitrhas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image342\" src=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/TempleOfMitrhasSmall.jpg\" alt=\"TempleOfMitrhasSmall.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite have lots of signs even a bus stop named after it, I really think they should have called them the Remains of the Temple of Mithras instead of just The Temple of Mithras. As you can see from the photo below, there really isn&#8217;t much of a temple. 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