Walbrook Mithraeum

District

City of London (Bank area)

Type

Ancient temple / ceremonial site

Claimed By

Cult of Mithras (historically); now contested

Theme

[The Heart](/locations/the-heart/) They Can't Destroy

Mood

Sacred, layered, haunted by two millennia of blood rituals

City

London

Function in Play

• The original Roman temple of Mithras, built over the Walbrook stream. Mithras’s first seat of power in Londinium.
• Used for important gatherings (especially December 25th) for nearly 2,000 years.
• In 1954, the temple was discovered during construction work — a major Masquerade crisis that the Kindred barely contained by promoting it as a “fascinating archaeological find.”
• By 1969, the ruins have been relocated and are a minor tourist attraction.
• The Cult of Mithras still conducts secret rituals in hidden chambers connected to the original site.
• The renovation of Walbrook Square in the early 2000s will uncover Heralds of the Sun sarcophagi — but in 1969, those remain buried.

Physical Read

• Reconstructed Roman ruins on Queen Victoria Street. Tourists see ancient stones.
• Kindred with Auspex feel centuries of blood soaked into every brick.