page_title: Embassy chapel
section_title: In London
hierarchical_section_title: Embassy chapel / List / In London
caption_attribution_description: English: London Warwick Street Church
context_page_description: An embassy chapel is a place of worship within a foreign mission. Historically they have sometimes acted as clandestine churches, tolerated by the authorities to operate discreetly. Since embassies are exempt from the host country's laws, a form of extraterritoriality, these chapels were able to provide services to prohibited and persecuted religious groups. For example, Catholic embassy chapels in Great Britain provided services while Catholicism was banned under the Penal Laws. A similar role was filled for Protestants by the Prussian embassy chapel in Rome, where Protestantism was unlawful until 1871. Upon laws granting freedom of religion, these embassy chapels have often become regularised churches and parishes, such as that of the Dutch embassy chapel to the Ottoman Empire, now The Union Church of Istanbul.
context_section_description: Sardinian Embassy Chapel
  Spanish Embassy Chapel, now St James's, Spanish Place
  Royal Bavarian Chapel (Portuguese and then Bavarian embassy)
  French, Florentine, Neapolitan, Venetian, and Austrian embassies (non extant today)
  Russian Orthodox Chapel, former Russian Embassy in Welbeck Street
  St Etheldreda's Church
caption: The Church of our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory, which was the chapel of the Portuguese Embassy between 1730 and 1747, and the chapel of the Bavarian embassy afterwards.
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