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The Hyde Park Chapel is a Meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in the South Kensington district of London.

Design
The church is built from reinforced concrete with a Portland stone facade. The main building is four storeys in height with a six-storey tower. The architect was Thomas Bennett of T. P. Bennett and Son. Purpose of Life mural Robert Oliver Skemp's 1964 mural The Purpose of Life, was displayed in the LDS pavilion Hall of the 1964 World's Fair in New York and was moved to the visitor centre of the Hyde Park Chapel after the fair ended. It had been commissioned by Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on behalf of the LDS church. It was subsequently installed on the ground floor of the Brigham Young University-Idaho in March 2015. ==History==
History
In 1954 LDS President David O. McKay instructed the president of the British LDS mission, Clifton Kerr, to find a location for a central London chapel for the LDS church. The construction of the chapel cost £300,000 () and took 16 months. It was refurbished and rededicated in 1995 by President Gordon B. Hinckley. ==References==
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