The Metropolitan Tabernacle

The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London was the place where Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached. The congregation moved to that site because it was known as the site of the Southwark Martyrs going back to 1557 under Bloody Mary. It could hold 6,000 people and it was filled from the time it was built to the time of Spurgeon's death in 1892. In 1898 a fire took the building but the very impressive six-pillared portico entrance stood among the ashes.