BYU London Centre Summer

BRITAIN'S SACRED SPACES & INSPIRED TEXTS

With BYU’s historic London Centre as its home base, this immersive seven-week program will be structured around a series of pilgrimages to hallowed literary, religious, and historical sites across England, Scotland, and Wales. Some of our destinations will be places of ancient worship, whether Druid (Stonehenge and lesser-known stone circles in the English countryside), Roman (archaeological digs in London and Bath), or Catholic (ruins of deserted abbeys). Other will be sacred spaces associated with living faiths, such as majestic Anglican cathedrals, modern temples and mosques, and hallowed sites from our own church’s history in Britain. A final set of pilgrimages will take us to landscapes, towns, museums, and theatres that inspired classic works by such iconic British writers as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, John Keats, the Wordsworth and Brontë siblings, and Virginia Woolf.

Students will receive six credits that can fulfill General Education requirements or be counted toward certain majors or minors. More importantly, they will emerge with a life-long appreciation for British literature and history, close relationships with their faculty directors and peers, a deep familiarity with one of the world’s great cities, and a storehouse of spiritual insights gleaned from many of Britain’s most sacred places and inspired texts.