Most London churches will hold Christmas Day services. If you want to experience a service at an iconic church, try the St Paul’s Midnight Mass (starts 11.30pm Christmas Eve), Sung Eucharist at 11am or Festal Evensong at 3.15pm.
Westminster Abbey has a Midnight Mass (starts 11.30pm Christmas Eve), Sung Eucharist (10.30am) and Evensong at 3pm.
The Allied victory at El Alamein, which began on October 23, 1942 and ended on November 4, was a major turning point in the war.
Sir Winston Churchill later said: "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."
More than 4,000 Allied servicemen lost their lives and almost 9,000 were wounded in the combat that saw General Sir Bernard Montgomery's troops defeat German general Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps.
At the time of the battle the Allies were fighting to keep their vital supply lines open from the Mediterranean to the East.
But Rommel had inflicted heavy defeats on Allied forces in Africa forcing them back to the village of El Alamein, about 60 miles west of Alexandria.
A special evensong will take place at Westminster Abbey today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein - the battle in North Africa which is credited as a major turning point in the Second World War.
Veterans will gather at the Abbey to hear an address from the Reverend Jonathan Woodhouse QHC, chaplain-general to HM Land Forces, in tribute to those who fought in the battle.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined Battle of Britain veterans and their families at a service of thanksgiving.
A Spitfire and a Hurricane flew high above London's Westminster Abbey to commemorate the battle, one of the turning points of the Second World War.
Some 544 Royal Air Force pilots were killed in the bitter struggle to save the UK from invasion.Of the events, Winston Churchill famously declared: "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed - by so many - to so few".
The annual service marked the nation's gratitude for the pilots and aircrew of the RAF who prevented Germany from gaining air superiority in the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain Roll of Honour was escorted to the Sacrarium by airmen who had fought in the battle.
The Westminster Abbey choir will get to sing at the Vatican this week after they performed for Pope Benedict XVI on his visit to Britain two years ago. On Thursday, the 20 boys and 12 adult singers will become the first choir to sing alongside the Sistine Chapel Choir.
Two former prime ministers are to be honoured with memorial stones at Westminster Abbey.
Sir Edward Heath and Lord James Callaghan will become the first premiers to be recognised like this for half a century.
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev Dr John Hall, said: "The men and women who have contributed most to our island story and our nation's international influence are memorialised in the Abbey, including most prime ministers of the 19th century and of the first half of the 20th century.
"And yet no prime minister since 1956 has a memorial in the Abbey.
"I have decided, with the support of those closest to them, to include two prime ministers from the 1970s, each of whom gave dutiful service in their own time."