The latest proposal to construct a gargantuan-sized mosque in East London, which would become Britain’s largest place of worship, a monolithic, overly dominant, and incongruous ‘mosquetrosity,’ are set to be thrown out despite 25,000 letters in favor.
The mosque, which could take 12,000 people — four times as many as St Paul’s Cathedral — would be as big as Battersea power station and become the HQ of Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat. However, officers for Newham council recommend the plan is refused.
The sect, to which the July 7 bombers and shoe bomber Richard Reid have been linked, could now be forced to leave the Abbey Mills site altogether in Canning Road, near the Olympic Park, after a 13-year battle.
Alan Craig, campaign director of Mega Mosque No Thanks and a former Newham councillor, said: “Now it’s up to the planning committee to follow the recommendation to reject. The building would be ugly, it would add nothing to the area and we have huge concerns about the group behind it.”
One corner of the planned mega mosque complex that opponents say would turn part of West Ham into an “Islamist ghetto”
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