London Mithraeum

The London Mithraeum, also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, is a Roman Mithraeum that was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during a building's construction in 1954 [1]. The temple was built in the mid-3rd century and dedicated to Mithras or perhaps jointly to several deities popular among Roman soldiers [1]. Then it was rededicated, probably to Bacchus, in the early fourth century [1]. Found within the temple, where they had been carefully buried at the time of its rededication, were finely detailed third-century white marble likenesses of Minerva, Mercury the guide of the souls of the dead, and the syncretic gods Mithras and Serapis [1]. The Roman temple, when it was originally built, would have stood on the east bank of the now covered-over River Walbrook [1]. The original Mithraeum was built partly underground [1].