A public exhibition was held by Tablighi Jamaat in Stratford in a bid to gather support for the Riverine Centre in Canning Road – dubbed a “mega-mosque.”
The plan includes a 9,500 capacity mosque with 40m high minarets, library, visitors centre, and a 300-space car park for worshippers.
A temporary facility, consisting of demountable buildings, is currently on site. It survived an attempt last year by Newham Council to remove it on the basis of increased traffic and land contamination.
.... “But they want to put their Western world headquarters there. It’s going to be isolationist and will simply create a large custom built Islamic ghetto. “It will be Newham’s first Sharia-controlled zone.” [Newham Recorder] Read more
