Top 10 facts

1. The community around our Mosque will be a major focus for our ongoing work. From our initial studies, we are confident that most local people are happy with their current neighbours in the temporary mosque and respect the desire to build a more...  read more >>

Christian Today praise Tablighi Jamaat

Cllr Alan Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on Newham Council, said today that the Tablighi Jamaat should be praised for its prompt action over a YouTube video which issued a death threat to the councillor. ...  read more >>

1 in 12 people in London are Muslim

According to a new survey released by the Greater London Authority, Muslim communities share common values and concerns with the wider community, repudiating the image of conflicting values portrayed by certain sections of the media. 96% of Mu...  read more >>

BNP hails Cllr Alan Craig

The British National Party has once again joined the debate on the proposed mosque at Abbeymills by hailing Cllr Alan Craig a "Christian Champion" for opposing the proposed mosque. This comes a week after Labour Newham councillor, Conor M...  read more >>

Trustees condemn threatening YouTube video

On Monday night (5 November 2007), we were contacted by the London Evening Standard to inform us that a link from our home page was being directed to the YouTube profile page of someone styling himself "abdullah1425". The Trustees would wi...  read more >>

Cllr Craig Rebuked by Newham

Cllr Alan Craig was rebuked by top Newham coucillors for seeking to promote division in a debate in Newham town hall.See the full article from the Newham Recorder below: "As ever Councillor Craig's question starts from a false premise and seeks...  read more >>

A bit of journalistic confusion about Deobandis

The Evening Standard appears confused about what it calls the Deobandi sect and alleges that Riyadh ul Haq is in line to become its leader. To help clarify this error, here are some helpful pointers about the Deobandis: Not all, but most M...  read more >>

Political Meeting between Respect and the CPA

The trustees of the Abbeymills Mosque are aware that a political meeting, open to the public, will be taking place on 7 September in Stratford. The two speakers will be a member of Respect and a member of the Christian People’s Alliance (CPA). ...  read more >>

Major benefit to development of Abbeymills – decon

The site being promoted for the Abbeymills Mosque is contaminated, relating to its previous use as a chemical factory. It is like many sites in this area and elsewhere - any development, be it for housing, retail, office or a mosque will have ...  read more >>

Widespread unsubstantiated claims tackled by No 10

No 10 has given its final response to the petition, which was exposed last week by the Evening Standard for having links to the BNP. In its response, it tackles head-on the "widespread unsubstantiated claim that up to £100 million of taxpayers'...  read more >>

A malicious campaign says Bunglawala

Inayat Bunglawala, an Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain and a co-presenter of the weekly 'Politics and Media Show' on the Islam Channel, has condemned stories about the so-called "mega-mosque" as 'alarmist' and 'mislea...  read more >>

The email condemned by Ken

Here is the text of the email that was circulated to obtain signatories to the PM Petition. Ken Livingstone has already condemned the campaign as 'vicious' and 'untrue'. > Please read.. > Livingstone is apparently planning to use ta...  read more >>

Ken condemns vicious campaign

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World class architects on board

The trustees of Abbeymills Mosque have appointed Allies and Morrison to design the Abbeymills development which will include a new Mosque. The proposals for a new mosque have been under consideration since 1996, when the trustees first acquire...  read more >>

No 10 steps in to halt misleading claims

Trade magazine Regeneration and Renewal has uncovered misleading claims about the mosque reported in The Times recently: Blair's office denies worries over mosque plans Downing Street has denied warning that...  read more >>

Standard: BNP linked to petition

Right-wing extremists have manipulated a Downing Street petition to stir up racial hatred over the building of a "megamosque" in east London, an investigation can reveal. More than 270,000 people have signed a petition on the Number 10 we...  read more >>

Old myths, new links

It must be nearing summer, because journalists clearly don't have enough to write about.  Instead they want to trot out the old myths, and portray Tablighi Jamaat as a "secretive sect".  Inconveniently for journalists, this so call...  read more >>

More Your Tube Videos

Two new videos in our Quick-Fire Questions series are now available from the abbeymillsmosque.com ...  read more >>

False mosque claim

Emails whipping up communal hatred to influence Evening Standard online poll4-4-2007  The Mayor of London has revealed an organised email campaign around an online poll being conducted by the Evening Standard aimed at stirring up commu...  read more >>

Mosque launches YouTube channel

In what we predict is a first for a mosque in the UK, Abbeymills Mosque has launched its own YouTube channel. YouTube is emerging as one of the most used sites in the world, and its domination in the video sphere together with its ability to at...  read more >>

BBC London: It's not mega

BBC London News interviewed a spokesman for the trustees of the Abbeymills Mosque to find out the real story behind those headlines. Got Broadband? ...  read more >>

Londoners show tolerance

Evening Standard readers have shown themselves to be a tolerant bunch, in a poll that has been running for several months on their website. Despite a wave of ill-informed stories in the press, Standard readers have come out by a large majority ...  read more >>

Prejudiced and intemperate campaign

A "prejudiced" and "intemperate" email campaign is underway to persuade people to reject the mosque in West Ham. The emails target people, irrespective of where they live. Tim, a blogger, who gives his location as Afghanistan and goes by the name ...  read more >>

New website launched

We are launching this website today to get some of the facts about the mosque out into the open.<> Over the coming weeks, we intend to populate the site more and build it into a good resource for local people and other stakeholders ...  read more >>