ABOVE: St Paul's Cathedral holds a quarter of worshippers the mosque will take
The mosque trustees say they want to build a mosque the size of Battersea Power Station
BRITAIN could have its first Sharia-controlled zone if plans for a mega-mosque more than four times the size of St Paul’s Cathedral get the go-ahead.
The East London mosque, known as the Riverine Centre, will hold 9,312 worshippers, compared to 2,400 at St Paul’s.
The 16-acre site in West Ham will include 40ft minarets, an Islamic library, a dining hall, multi-use games areas, tennis courts, sports facilities and eight flats for visiting Muslim clerics.
Islamist group Tablighi Jamaat has submitted updated plans for what Cambridge-based architects NRAP are calling a “contemporary Islamic sacred space” the size of Battersea Power Station
The 16-acre site in West Ham will include 40ft minarets, an Islamic library, a dining hall, multi-use games areas, tennis courts, sports facilities and eight flats for visiting Muslim clerics.
Islamist group Tablighi Jamaat has submitted updated plans for what Cambridge-based architects NRAP are calling a “contemporary Islamic sacred space” the size of Battersea Power Station
But last night campaigners against the proposal claimed the application was a smokescreen for wider intentions to create a hardline Islamic enclave in the capital.
They also insisted facilities for the wider non-Muslim community in East London would be minimal and disguise Tablighi’s real aim to establish a global base.
The group has been dubbed an “antechamber of fundamentalism” by French intelligence officials.
Two of the July 7 bombers, Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan, and failed shoe bomber Richard Reid, left, are believed to have prayed at a Tablighi mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Alan Craig, campaign director of MegaMosque- NoThanks, said: “Newham Council wants a mixed use of the site with homes, shops and business units.
“The mosque trustees say they want to build a mosque the size of Battersea Power Station.
“Either way, it will be the UK’s first custombuilt Sharia-controlled zone.”
His comments follow the shelving of plans for retail units and 300 flats after the Muslim community said they did not want their donations going to a commercial venture.
The mosque will form the centrepiece and will include a prayer hall for 7,440 men and a separate prayer facility on an upper level for 1,872 women.
NRAP director Richard Owers said the site represented a “genuinely West Ham mosque” because, aside from the minarets which were a key requirement of the client, the design involved a “subtle underplaying of traditional Islamic architecture”.
Meanwhile, trustees of the Riverine Centre, which runs the Tablighi Jamaat site, said: “The feedback received from the general Newham community from the public consultation held in February this year clearly demonstrated there is tremendous and overwhelming all-round support for our vision of turning a barren post-industrial landscape into an oasis for the benefi t of everyone.”
A Newham Council spokesman said: “We can confirm we have received a planning application.
“As this is currently being processed it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
They also insisted facilities for the wider non-Muslim community in East London would be minimal and disguise Tablighi’s real aim to establish a global base.
The group has been dubbed an “antechamber of fundamentalism” by French intelligence officials.
Two of the July 7 bombers, Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan, and failed shoe bomber Richard Reid, left, are believed to have prayed at a Tablighi mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Alan Craig, campaign director of MegaMosque- NoThanks, said: “Newham Council wants a mixed use of the site with homes, shops and business units.
“The mosque trustees say they want to build a mosque the size of Battersea Power Station.
“Either way, it will be the UK’s first custombuilt Sharia-controlled zone.”
His comments follow the shelving of plans for retail units and 300 flats after the Muslim community said they did not want their donations going to a commercial venture.
The mosque will form the centrepiece and will include a prayer hall for 7,440 men and a separate prayer facility on an upper level for 1,872 women.
NRAP director Richard Owers said the site represented a “genuinely West Ham mosque” because, aside from the minarets which were a key requirement of the client, the design involved a “subtle underplaying of traditional Islamic architecture”.
Meanwhile, trustees of the Riverine Centre, which runs the Tablighi Jamaat site, said: “The feedback received from the general Newham community from the public consultation held in February this year clearly demonstrated there is tremendous and overwhelming all-round support for our vision of turning a barren post-industrial landscape into an oasis for the benefi t of everyone.”
A Newham Council spokesman said: “We can confirm we have received a planning application.
“As this is currently being processed it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
THIS MOSQUE MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE BUILT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. IF THIS MOSQUE GETS THE GO AHEAD THEN IT'S GOODBYE LONDON.
THIS MOSQUE WOULD DOMINATE THE SKYLINE AND IT WOULD CHANGE LONDON FOREVER.
MUSLIMS ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN BIT BY BIT UNTIL THEY ACHIEVE THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL, AND THAT IS TO TURN LONDON IN TO AN ISLAMIC STATE. THIS CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
MUSLIMS WILL NOT BUILD THE MOSQUE IF THE SITE IS COVERED IN PIGS BLOOD ( YOU MUST FILM THIS FOR PROOF) OR IF THERE ARE PIGS BURIED ON THE SITE.
WHEN THEY PUT IN THE PLANS FOR THE MOSQUE, THERE SHOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT, THE MOSQUE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN STRAIGHT AWAY, BUT THIS IS A LABOUR RUN COUNCIL AND LABOUR ARE IN SUPPORT OF ANYTHING THAT MUSLIMS WANT, SO THEY WILL MORE THAN LIKELY GRANT PERMISSION FOR THE MOSQUE TO BE BUILT.
IF SO THEN WE NEED EVERY MAN JACK OUT IN PROTEST, MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL OVER GREAT BRITAIN, IT'S NO USE JUST A FEW HUNDRED TURNING OUT, WE NEED THOUSANDS TURNING OUT. OUR COUNTRY IS NOW AT STAKE AND IT'S TIME TO TAKE IT BACK, BECAUSE IF THIS MOSQUE IS BUILT, THEN IT'S THE END OF ENGLAND AS WE KNOW IT.
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