Brick Lane Mosque

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The Brick Lane Mosque - first used as a church, later as a synagogue and now as a mosque - reflects the demographic change in the district

Brick Lane Jamme Masjid ( Bengali : ব্রিক লেন জামে মসজিদ "Brick Lane Great Mosque"), previously known as the London Jamme Masjid (লন্ডন জামে মসজিদ "London Great Mosque"), is a mosque at 59 Brick Lane on the corner of Brick Lane and Fournier Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London , England . It serves the largest community of Bangladeshi Muslims in Great Britain. The building, which was built in the 18th century and has already served various religious communities, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the East End and is a Grade II listed building.

history

In 1743 Huguenots immigrated from France built the Neuve Eglise , a Protestant church on the corner of Brick Lane and Fournier Street , and used it as a place of worship for over six decades. In 1809, missionaries from the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews under its founder, the convert Joseph Frey, made the building known as The Jews' Chapel, the center of proselytizing the growing Jewish population. From 1819 it was the Church of the Methodist Congregation . At the end of the 19th century, the church again served to proselytize the numerous Jews who fled the pogroms in Tsarist Russia .

In 1897 the Lithuanian Orthodox Jewish group Mahzikei Hadas (Strengtheners of Faith) turned the church into a synagogue called Machzikei HaDath . Various modifications were made, for example to the gallery, in order to make the interior space usable for Jewish ceremonies. A Torah school was set up under the roof of the former church . When the number of Jews in the district fell, u. a. when they moved to north London, the synagogue was closed in the 1960s.

Due to the growing number of Muslims from India and Bangladesh in the district, the church was turned into a mosque from 1976 under the name London Jamme Masjid . Renovation work over the next ten years turned the interior into a two-story prayer room.

The building has been under monument protection (Grade II * listed) since 1950.

Web links

Commons : Brick Lane Mosque  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/heritage-centenary/landmark-listings/brick-lane-jamme-masjid accessed on July 24, 2014
  2. ^ Richard Jones (2006). Frommer's Memorable Walks in London . John Wiley and Sons. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-471-77338-2
  3. ^ Rob Humphreys, Judith Bamber (2003). London . Rough guides. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-84353-093-0
  4. ^ Lucy Dixon, "A brief history of the Mosque" ( Memento October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), My Tower Hamlets website, Retrieved Oct 15, 2007
  5. ↑ 59 Brick Lane: a History ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Icons of England. Retrieved April 27, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icons.org.uk
  6. ↑ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/heritage-centenary/landmark-listings/brick-lane-jamme-masjid accessed on July 24, 2014
  7. ↑ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/heritage-centenary/landmark-listings/brick-lane-jamme-masjid accessed on July 24, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 9.6 ″  N , 0 ° 4 ′ 19.4 ″  W.