The Temple Church is on my top ten list of the destinations that I must pay a visit during my stay in London. Sure enough, I got the chance to have a glimpse when the professors of the design studio took us on a tour from the Brunswick Center to the North river bank at the beginning of the semester. I was interested in this particular church, oddly enough, due to Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code". The author depicts the Temple Church as the starting point where the modern London City is built from. However, if look at London from the top in the sky, we will discover that the city center (of the North bank) is St. Paul's Cathedral. Also, from the history we can conclude that even before 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, the two centers of the city have been The Buckingham Palace and St. Paul's in the City: It has never been the Temple. Therefore I'm very curious to find out what is the actual conditions of this mysterious church in the contexts of the present day.
Unlike other major churches in London, the Temple Church is surrounded by parcels of private land that are densely packed with multistory residences and private offices.
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