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The Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic church at 117 Bow Common Lane, E3 in Bow Common: The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
''Taking Stock: Catholic Churches in England and Wales'', accessed 11 February 2017
The Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic church at 117 Bow Common Lane, E3 in Bow Common
Bow Common was an area of common land, that lay on Bow Common Lane in what is now the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Despite the name, the common lay just inside Mile End's parish boundary with Bromley by Bow, and not in the parish of Bow ...
, East London
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
. It is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus
In Catholicism, the veneration of the Holy Name of Jesus (also ''Most Holy Name of Jesus'', it, Santissimo Nome di Gesù) developed as a separate type of devotion in the early modern period, in parallel to that of the '' Sacred Heart''. The ...
and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This devo ...
and designed by Frederick Arthur Walters.
It opened in 1894 and is now home to the Vietnamese chaplaincy in the Archdiocese of Westminster
The Catholic Diocese of Westminster is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in England. The diocese consists of most of London north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea, the borough of Spelthorne (in Surrey), and th ...
.''Taking Stock: Catholic Churches in England and Wales'', accessed 11 February 2017
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* 1894 establishments in England Roman Catholic churches completed in 1894 Roman Catholic churches in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Frederick Walters buildings Bow Common Overseas Vietnamese religious buildings and structures {{UK-RC-church-stub