Major Minaret

This is Jamme Masjid, Brick Lane’s local mosque with its beautiful modern minaret of glowing stainless steel. I was passing this evening, musing on the tides of change that have flooded through this narrow, scruffy street, even in the forty years or so I’ve lived round here.

This Mosque has been a place of worship for over 275 years accommodating wave after wave of fleeing migrants seeking shelter in the shade of the City walls.
Built originally as a Huguenot Church, 150 years later repurposed as an Ashkenazi Synagogue and in the early 1970’s morphed again into the present Mosque serving the Bengali refugee community, this dignified, defiant building has watched over the ever changing moods of the East End.
Who knows what will be witnessed from the minaret in the decades to come...