East London Mosque

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East London Mosque and London Muslim Center

The East London Mosque (East London Mosque / "East London Mosque") is a mosque on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel , London . The London Muslim Center and Maryam Center are adjacent to them.

General

Main portal and minarets
The prayer room of the original East London Mosque during the festival of the breaking of the fast in 1941
Overall view of the building complex

The church of one of the largest Muslim communities in London with 7,000 seats celebrated its centenary in 2010.

Her main imam and Chatib is the Bangladeshi born Sheikh Abdul Qayum .

history

In 1910 a public meeting was held at the Ritz Hotel in London , calling for the establishment of a mosque in London worthy of the tradition of Islam and the capital of the British Empire . A fund was set up which was managed by celebrities such as the Aga Khan , Syed Ameer Ali , the Koran translators Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Marmaduke Pickthall , Lord Lamington , Earl Winterthon and Nathan Rothschild . But the project was only able to be completed after several decades.

In 1941 the London Mosque Trust acquired three buildings on Commercial Road, Stepney , and converted them into a mosque.

She moved from Commercial Road in the East End to Fieldgate Street and in 1985 she moved to Whitechapel Road.

The current mosque was built between 1982 and 1985 with the help of Saudi donations, whereby the keel arches of its facade and the two minarets flanking the portal seem to refer to Iranian models .

literature

  • Humayun Ansari: The Making of the East London Mosque, 1910-1951: Minutes of the London Mosque Fund and East London Mosque Trust Ltd (Camden Fifth Series). Cambridge University 2011 ( book presentation )

Web links

Commons : East London Mosque  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ theguardian.com: From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques ( The Guardian , Tuesday 18 June 2002) speaks of “London's first mosque”.
  2. ↑ eastlondonmosque.org.uk Management
  3. ↑ From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques ( The Guardian , June 18, 2002)
  4. ↑ From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques (The Guardian, Tuesday 18 June 2002)
  5. ↑ Lorenz Korn: The mosque: architecture and religious life . 2012 ( online excerpt ), p. 115.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '3.4 "  N , 0 ° 3' 56.2"  W.