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St Stephen's chapel at West Norwood- the third Greek Orthodox church built in London Tucked within the historic landscape of West Norwood Cemetery, one of London’s “Magnificent Seven,” lies a quieter, deeply resonant space: the Greek enclosure. Here, among marble tombs and weathered inscriptions, the story of London’s Greek diaspora is written not in archives alone, but in stone. As part of the Greekscapes project, our work in the enclosure focuses on heritage recording — doc

We visited St Sophia’s in mid-October 2026. Outside, Bayswater moved with its usual rhythm; traffic along Moscow Road, the slow drift of people towards Hyde Park. Inside, however, there was near silence. The cathedral was empty. No congregation. No priest at the solea. Only Byzantine chanting, flowing gently from unseen speakers. The sound seemed to hover beneath the dome, unmoored from visible chanters, filling the vast interior with a liturgical presence that felt both anci

Tucked between Bowes Park and Wood Green, Myddleton Road is one of those rare London high streets where layers of history still feel tangible. Named after Sir Hugh Myddelton, the visionary behind the New River that brought fresh water into London in the 1600s, the road developed in the late Victorian period as a bustling local parade of shops serving a growing suburban population. But beyond its architectural charm and independent-shop revival, Myddleton Road is also part of

London’s Greek presence is layered, complex and ongoing. It stretches from the 19th-century merchant families who built monumental churches in the West End, to post-war and post-1974 Greek-Cypriot arrivals in north London, to contemporary students, artists and professionals reshaping what diaspora means today. Greekscapes exists to record, interpret and share that heritage. Our project approaches Greek London not as a static community, but as a living cultural landscape — a