Brick Lane Market Brick Lane Market Brick Lane Market is a London market centred on Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets in east London. It is located at the northern end of Brick Lane and along Cheshire Street, in the heart of east London's Bangladeshi community. It operates every Sunday from around 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The market sells a diverse range of items, from antique books to eight-track cartridge decks, and for many years it hosted a stall selling nothing but rusty cog wheels. The market has always been popular with and much photographed by art students, and bargain hunters from across London
Islam in London have been the residence of the Khalifatul Masih caliphs and therefore, the international headquarters of the Community. One of the first large mosques was on Brick Lane, in a listed building which started life as a church in the 18th century and was converted into a synagogue in the 19th, reflecting the changing waves of immigration, from Huguenots to Eastern European Jews to Bengalis. Soon after the Brick Lane Mosque opened, two large mosques were built, the East London Mosque (with the adjoining London Muslim Centre and Maryam Centre) on Whitechapel Road not far from Spitalfields, and the London Central