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===Religion=== [[File:Church of St. Ann, Soho - geograph.org.uk - 104124.jpg|thumb|left|St Anne's Church]] Soho is home to numerous religious and spiritual groups. [[St Anne's Church, Soho|St Anne's Church]] on Wardour Street was built between 1677 and 1686, possibly to the design of [[Sir Christopher Wren]] or [[William Talman (architect)|William Talman]]. An additional tower was built in 1717 by Talman and reconstructed in 1803. The church was damaged by a [[V1 flying bomb]] during World War II in 1940, but the tower survived. In 1976, [[John Betjeman]] campaigned to save the building.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=743}} The church was fully restored in the late 1980s and formally re-opened by the [[Princess Royal]] on 12 March 1990.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=kccl&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF501808516&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Court Circular|newspaper=The Times|location=London, England|date=13 March 1990|page=16|access-date=8 January 2018|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The [[Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory]] on Warwick Street was built in 1788 and is the only remaining 18th-century Roman Catholic embassy chapel in London and principal church of the [[Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham]].{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=170}} [[St Patrick's Church, Soho Square|St Patrick's Church]] in [[Soho Square]] was built in 1792 to accommodate Irish immigrants who had moved to the area.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=805}} Other religious buildings in Soho include the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] Temple off Soho Square, which was part-funded by [[George Harrison]] and opened in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/things-to-do-in-soho-during-the-day|title=Things to do in Soho during the day|work=Londonist|access-date=6 November 2017|date=30 April 2017}}</ref> There exists a small mosque on Berwick Street.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/soho-mosque-bans-women-worshipers-because-it-is-too-full-a3190281.html |title=Soho mosque bans women worshipers because it is 'too full' |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=26 February 2017 |access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> The [[French Protestant Church of London]], the only one of its kind in the city and constructed in the Flemish Gothic style, has been at Nos. 8β9 Soho Square since 1893.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=308}}
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