Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood

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St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church is an Orthodox church in Brookwood, Surrey, England.

The Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood in 1982 to prepare and care for the Church in which the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr were to be enshrined. A small monastic community chants the services of the Church daily at the Shrine, and their numbers are augmented on Sundays and feast days by a number of Orthodox who form a mission parish.

St. Edward's is under the authority of the of Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili. The Brotherhood and Parish Church bear witness to the spiritual heritage of the Russian Orthodox peoples, along with the many saints of Britain from the first ten centuries of the Christian era.

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