Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience

London's Roman-era Temple of Mithras, once displayed on a car park roof with a crazy paving floor, is to reopen to the public - this time on its original site.

Visitors to the temple will now descend through steep, black stone-lined stairs, in Bloomberg's new European headquarters, to seven metres below the city streets where in Roman times the smelly river Walbrook once flowed sluggishly through marshy ground. In approximately 240AD, the Romans built a temple next to the river to one of their most mysterious cult figures, Mithras the bull-slayer.