Westminster Abbey, London

Photograph by Jim Richardson , National Geographic

For a thousand years, music and ceremony have celebrated the Christian Gospel in Westminster Abbey in London. As the place where generations of English kings and queens have been married, crowned, and buried, this great medieval building embodied King James's cherished fusion of glory and regal authority a visual and aural richness of which the new Bible was to be an integral part.

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