Brick Lane Jamme Masjid

The building went up in 1743 as La Neuve Eglise, a Protestant chapel for Huguenot refugees from France. In 1809 it became a Wesleyan chapel known as The Jews' Chapel, rented by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, and from 1819 it was a Methodist chapel. In 1891 it became Machzike Hadath, the Spitalfields Great Synagogue, serving Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, and in 1976 it reopened as the London Jamme Masjid for the growing Bangladeshi community. A sundial set into the Fournier Street elevation carries the Latin motto 'Umbra sumus', we are shadow, after Horace. The adjoining former school and vestry is Grade II, NHLE 1065278, listed on 19 February 1970.