LONDON'S MOSQUE OF TERROR

A look at the Masjid - e - Umer mosque of Walthamstow, which has been the place of worship for several of the bomb plot suspects arrested since 10 August 2006

At least eight of the 23 people arrested on the weekend of 12 August by British police, worshipped at this mosque. It is located halfway down Queens Road, E17, near Walthamstow Central station. The building used to be a synagogue, but was converted into a mosque at a cost of £2 million in 2003. The dome and minaret have obviously been added at this time, because the Google Earth picture of the neighbourhood still shows a flat-roofed building:

The mosque adheres to a strict Sunni sect called Deobandi. Apparently extremist literature have been distributed outside the mosque during prayer time. However, a mosque trustee, Iqbal Mehtar, said: “Every mosque has that problem. There is nothing we can do about it.”

The Islamic crescent, a dome and a minaret dominate the skyline of this Walthamstow road.

Related News Links:

Terror fears in Walthamstow -- BBC 11 August
Mosque pleads for calm after being linked to eight suspects -- The Sunday Times 13 August
'Terror plot' search locations -- BBC 17 August
Suspects linked to hardline Islamic group -- Guardian 18 August
Terror police find 'martyr tapes' -- BBC 19 August
Inside the Islamic group accused by MI5 and FBI (Tablighi Jamaat) -- Guardian 19 August
Timeline: UK 'terror plot' investigation -- BBC Regularly Updated

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