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not hard to imagine how this gas-lit street would have looked on a foggy night in Jack the
Ripper's time. Keep going toward the end of the street.
When you reach Brick Lane, you're suddenly immersed in “Banglatown,” London's
highest concentration of Bangladeshi residents. Immediately on your left is the neighbor-
hood mosque, Jamme Masjid —also called the Great London Mosque. This building has
a history as dynamic as London itself: It was built as a Huguenot chapel and then used as a
Methodist chapel and a Jewish synagogue before being converted into a mosque in 1976.
Notice the slender, new, metallic minaret.
Wander north (to the left) up Brick Lane, window-shopping for lunch or dinner. Here
in “the curry capital of Europe,” neon signs advertise cheap meals, and out front, pitchmen
jockey for your business. The slightest hesitation on your part will result in an offer of a
20 percent discount. This is a great place to sample “Ruby Murray” (Cockney rhyming
slang for “curry”—see here ) .
After two blocks is the former Truman Brewery, which now houses a Sunday mar-
ket, trendy shops, and Café 1001 (good coffee). A half-block farther north, you'll find
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