Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

On this episode we're going to do something a little different.

We're going to start a series of three episodes.

This week's episode, our first episode, is going to be on Westminster Abbey.

Next time together, we're going to look at five things about the Westminster standards

or the Westminster Confession.

And then the third week, we're going to look at five members of the Westminster Assembly.

They called them divines, so we will look at five divines.

But this week we're going to talk about Westminster Abbey and we're going to talk about five things

that everyone needs to know about Westminster Abbey. Of course we're talking about a beautiful

cathedral, an iconic building right in London's downtown,

right next to the Parliament, and of course right next to Big Ben.

Let's turn this into a quiz actually.

So here we go, our first question. Who was buried in Westminster

Abbey for almost two years? Give up? The answer is Oliver Cromwell. Now if you ever were to visit Westminster Abbey, you need to walk all the way to the east side, all the way to the back,

and back there you'll find a stone, right on the bottom of the floor.

Now, you don't need to be a detective to know

that there is a great story behind that stone. But for now all we need to know is

that Oliver Cromwell was buried in Westminster Abbey for

about two years. Our second question, when did the construction begin on

Westminster Abbey? When did they start building it?

Now this is a bit of a trick question and I'll accept two answers.

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