Brick Lane Jamme Masjid

The building you are approaching is a rare architectural chameleon that has served as a center of worship for nearly three centuries. Constructed in seventeen forty-three, it began its life as a French Protestant chapel known as the Neuve Eglise. It was built by Huguenot refugees who had fled religious persecution in France and established a booming silk-weaving industry in this part of London. Because these walls have hosted a succession of different immigrant communities, the structure itself acts as a physical timeline of the shifting populations that have defined the East End.