After visiting the
Singapore Inside Out exhibition in the old Truman brewery, I decided to check out Brick Lane. I have never been to this part of London before. It is located near Liverpool St Station and Shoreditch High Street station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Brick Lane is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi-Sylheti community. It is also famous for the curry houses.
Brick Lane mosque -
It is interesting to read on Wikipedia that
the mosque was originally "
established in 1743 as a Protestant chapel by London's French Huguenot community. In 1809 it became a Wesleyan chapel, bought by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews but this phase of its history lasted only 10 years. From 1819, the building became a Methodist chapel. In the late 19th century, the building at 59 Brick Lane was adopted by yet another community. It became the Machzike Adass, the Spitalfields Great Synagogue. During this time, the area was home to many Jewish refugees from Russia and Central Europe. The population of Jews decreased over the years, with many moving to areas of North London. During the 1970s, the area of Spitalfields and Brick Lane was populated mainly by Bangladeshis who had come to Britain from the Sylhet region looking for better work. Many found work in factories and the textile trade. That growing community required a place of worship, and the building at 59 Brick Lane was bought and refurbished. In 1976, it reopened as a mosque, the London Jamme Masjid. Today, although it has been renamed, it still serves the Bangladeshi community as a mosque."
Some curry houses, all advertising the 'best' food !!! I went to Muhib for a set lunch -
Some street art -
Start of Brick Lane -
Near Brick Lane is the old Spitalfields market -
And further away is the "London gherkin", 30 St Mary Axe. It was opened in April 2004, is 180 m tall and has 41 storeys -
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