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The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland.It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, [2] [3] although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg [4] and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht.
Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral between 1988 and 1997 uncovered architectural fragments of this first stone cathedral beneath the floor of the present cathedral. The west front of the 1136 cathedral lay at the third pier of the existing nave and its east end included the area of St Mungo's tomb.
Tomb of St. Mungo in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral dedicated in his honour. His shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation. His remains are said to still rest in the crypt. A spring called "St. Mungo's Well" fell eastwards from the apse.
St Mungo, Glasgow: Glasgow: 1136: www.glasgowcathedral.org.uk ... Glasgow Cathedral Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin: Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway: 1871
Cathedral Square and precinct is situated adjacent to Glasgow Cathedral on High Street/Castle Street at John Knox Street. Nearby are many famous Glasgow landmarks such as Provand's Lordship , Glasgow Royal Infirmary , the Necropolis , the ceremonial Barony Hall of Strathclyde University , and the Glasgow Evangelical Church at the Square.
Very little of medieval Glasgow remains, the two main landmarks from this period being the 15th-century Provand's Lordship and 12th-century St. Mungo's Cathedral. St. Mungo's Cathedral, also known as the High Kirk and Glasgow Cathedral, is the oldest building in Glasgow and is an example of Scottish Gothic architecture.
St. Mungo's may refer to: St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow a.k.a. Glasgow Cathedral and The High Kirk of Glasgow St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries from the Harry Potter books
[2] [3] In Strathclyde the most important saint was St. Kentigern, whose cult (under the pet name St. Mungo) became focused in Glasgow. [4] In Lothian it was St. Cuthbert, whose relics were carried across Northumbria after Lindisfarne was sacked by the Vikings before being installed in Durham Cathedral. [5]