Only the fence top painted in the Rastafarian colors red, yellow and green remains as a proof of its existence. The building itself, a Rastafarian temple on the edge of London's
Kennington Park, has been torn down last year. I managed to stay in London for the first time in my life and not see any of the traditional tourist sites (as is always my goal). But I did spend a wonderful afternoon on a bench in this park in South London. Not just any park. In the revolutionary year 1848 for example, the site was a gathering place for the democratic Chartists. And the torn down temple on St Agnes Place, squatted since the seventies and supposedly visited by Bob Marley, used to be a headquarter of the UK's Rastafarian community. Last year in April though the police
raided the temple, saying it had been taken over by drug suppliers. 23 people were arrested, but no one was ever convicted and no evidence was ever offered of class A drugs being present. Two months ago the trial against the only five people who were actually charged
collapsed. Of course by then the building had already been demolished.
Only the fence top painted in the Rastafarian colors red, yellow and green remains as a proof of its existence. The building itself, a Rastafarian temple on the edge of London's Kennington Park, has been torn down last year. I managed to stay in London for the first time in my life and not see any of the traditional tourist sites (as is always my goal). But I did spend a wonderful afternoon on a bench in this park in South London. Not just any park. In the revolutionary year 1848 for example, the site was a gathering place for the democratic Chartists. And the torn down temple on St Agnes Place, squatted since the seventies and supposedly visited by Bob Marley, used to be a headquarter of the UK's Rastafarian community. Last year in April though the police raided the temple, saying it had been taken over by drug suppliers. 23 people were arrested, but no one was ever convicted and no evidence was ever offered of class A drugs being present. Two months ago the trial against the only five people who were actually charged collapsed. Of course by then the building had already been demolished.
