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Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know

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The Importance of Paying for Private Prayer

In the great Abbiz and Cathedral's of England there is an emphasis, a necessary emphasis on payment to go in and go round. And that's a big contrast to the great French of the e-trolls, where there's no emphasis on getting money at all. English cathedrals are still owned by the Church of England, which receives no kind of subsidy from the state in maintaining them.

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