Salvation Army International Headquarters

The Christian Mission Headquarters, Whitechapel Road, became the Army's first International Headquarters in 1880. However, the Founder soon decided that a move into the City of London would be beneficial and in 1881 IHQ was moved to 101 Queen Victoria Street. Sixty years after this move the IHQ building was destroyed by fire during the Second World War. The rebuilt headquarters was opened by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1963. As with the earlier building, this '101' was also home to National, later Territorial Headquarters, for the UK.

In 2001, for the second time in its history (the previous occasion was following its destruction by enemy action in 1941), IHQ took up residence in the William Booth College (the officers' training college in South London) when it was decided to redevelop the site in Queen Victoria Street. The new building was opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 9 November 2004. The new building occupies only one third of the original site as the UK headquarters moved south of the River Thames to 101 Newington Causeway.