PLANS for a super mosque close to the Olympic stadium reveal that it could hold almost 10,000 people.
Architects’ drawings show that the vast mosque will be about the same size as Battersea Power Station.
By comparison, Britain’s largest cathedral, in Liverpool, can hold 3,000 worshippers.
Newham Council in east London is due to decide whether it will grant planning permission for the structure next month.
Former councillor Alan Craig has launched a campaign to stop the project. He has produced 100,000 leaflets, which were being distributed throughout the borough yesterday. Mr Craig said: “The mega-mosque is proposed and planned by a particularly disturbing Islamic sect called Tablighi Jamaat.” [Daily Express] Read more
