Perpetual adoration
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Perpetual adoration
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 9 Jul 2019
Nun before the altar at Tyburn Convent, Hyde Park Place. She will be replaced by another Sister in due course so that the Blessed Sacrament - which is exposed in the monstrance above the altar - will be attended continuously, twenty-four hours a day, throughout the year. This is an enclosed order so, except in an emergency or special circumstances, the Sisters never leave the Convent. This is an other-worldly enclave only five minutes walk from the ultra consumerism of Oxford Street. The noise of traffic from adjacent Bayswater Road seldom intrudes: only the intermittent rumble of passing Underground trains, below, disturbs the perfect peace and calm.
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Image Location
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51.513007
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