What's inside a town's new goddess temple?
BBCSix priestesses are set to open a new community goddess temple in a town centre after transforming part of an old office block.
The Wiltshire Community Goddess Temple, in Trowbridge, will open to the public on 9 May and the priestesses are hoping to welcome people from all backgrounds and beliefs as well as those who simply want a space in which to contemplate.
Priestess Sarah Robinson said the temple was a "dream come true" for her. "It has really given me a new lease of life and I'm hoping to spread that so other people can benefit in the same way," she said.
The temple has a central circle for groups as well as four corner spaces representing the elements and a therapy room.
What's in there?
The temple is filled with decorations, including crystals, pictures, wall hangings and rugs.
The therapy room has singing bowls and one area contains stacks of tarot and oracle cards.
All the walls in the temple are purple.
"Purple is the colour of spiritual connection and, for me, the colour of the goddess," said Robinson.
"She comes in all shapes and forms and she has many different names."
While the altar is for the goddess, there are four individually-decorated corners for the "sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water", Robinson said.
"Each element has a different energy associated with them."
Robinson said she believed there was an increasing need for spaces like the goddess temple.
"It's something ancient that we've lost hold of," she said. "We've lost sight of our connection to the earth."
Priestess Angela Locksley said the creation of the temple took a few weeks and involved the goddesses and their friends gathering at weekends to paint and decorate.
Visitor to the temple Thomas Clare, who described himself as a witch, said it was "quite an uncommon thing to find".
He said: "It's nice to see this community growing and expanding."
Pagan groups could be "misunderstood" and "made out to be dark", he said.
"It's [about] being in touch with the earth more than anything."
Who can visit?
Robinson came up with the idea for the temple but the other priestesses all have some training too.
While this is Wiltshire's first goddess temple, there are a few others in the country, including one at Glastonbury in Somerset.
Bookable workshops and one-to-one sessions in the therapy room will be available and the temple will also open on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons so that people can attend for prayer or contemplation.
"In my world, paganism is everywhere," Locksley said.
She said pagans of "all different descriptions" were welcome but that the space was also "very inclusive of all faiths and none".
The aim of creating the temple was to "offer ceremony and rites of passage and really bring the role of ceremony back into the community," she said.
"This is a place where you can come and contemplate and find peace."
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