Source: Daily Mail
The Fazl Mosque, Southfields, which was the first purpose-built mosque in London.
The Fazl Mosque, Southfields, which was the first purpose-built mosque in London and only the second such building in Britain, has been given Grade II status.
It was constructed in 1925-26 with funds raised by the Ahmadiyya Community in India and supported by voluntary labour.
It is a fusion of Indian Mughal architectural forms and contemporary British trends, with the spherical dome on the buttressed square base resembling the 1923 twin towers at the Wembley Stadium, but does not have the Orientalist style of the earlier Woking mosque as it had become associated with theatres, piers and amusement arcades.
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