St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace Venue

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace stands on a site with roots reaching back to the thirteenth century, marking it as one of the few medieval survivors in the City of London. While it famously escaped the devastation of the Great Fire of London in 1666 and emerged largely unscathed from the Blitz of the Second World War, its luck shifted dramatically on April 24, 1993. On that morning, a massive truck bomb planted by the IRA exploded just seven meters away, leaving the church seventy percent destroyed. Rather than clearing the wreckage, the community chose to rebuild the structure, eventually reopening it in 2002 as a dedicated space for conflict resolution and peace-building.