About Our Team
The East London Mosque Trustees established the Archives Steering Group in 2010, carrying forward the work of Choudhury Mueenuddin and Hamzah Foreman.
Dr Muhammad AbdulBari
Trustee , East London Mosque & former Chair of Trustees
Dr Abdullah Faliq
Head of Research, The Cordoba Foundation; Honorary Research Fellow, London Metropolitan University; Member, East London Mosque Trust
Clare Kopp
Archives Project Officer
Eilis McCarthy
Archivist of the East London Mosque collections
Juber Hussain
Project Officer, East London Mosque Trust
Sufia Alam
Centre Manager at the Maryam Centre, part of the East London Mosque Trust
Salahuddeen Haleem
Chair of Trustees, Indigent Moslem Burial Fund & Indigent Muslim Fund; former Treasurer East London Mosque Trust
Jamil Sherif
Chair of the Archives Steering Group; former chair of the Muslim Council of Britain’s Research & Documentation Committee and continuing member.
Tamsin Bookey
Heritage Manager, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
Dilowar Khan
Former Director & now Finance Manager, East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre
Shahed Saleem
Founder and Director, Make Space Architects; Senior Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL working on the Survey of London; design studio leader at the University of Westminster School of Architecture
Rosemary Seton
Religious Archives Group
Milestones
- November 2017: Inauguration of East London Mosque Archives Strongroom by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (22 November) with other chief guests including the CEO & Keeper of the National Archives, Jeff James
- Builders’ contracts awarded for Strongroom in basement of Maryam Centre
- October 2015: Event in Fieldgate Street Synagogue – an Open Day with presentations by Historian Gerry Black and Synagogue’s former rabbi; guests included families with memories of visiting this place of worship (last regular service in 2009; site purchased and renovated by East London Mosque Trust in 2015-2016)
- January 2015: Event to launch on-line archive catalogue and reading room service; chief guests Simon Hughes MP; Sadiq Khan MP; Jeff James (TNA); Professor Humayun Ansari
- January 2015: Archivist Eilis McCarthy’s presentation at the Everyday Muslim symposium, Bishopsgate
On-line catalogue implemented on archiveshub.ac.uk
- November 2013: Grant from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust for the conservation of the East London Mosque Minutes Book
- September 2013: Appointment of Archivist Eilis McCarthy, following successful TNA bid
- April 2013: Presentation on East London Mosque Archives by Jamil Sherif at the Religious Archives Group Conference
- March 2013: East London Mosque Trustees establish Archives Steering Committee, inviting professional representation from the Tower Hamlets Archive & Local History Centre and the Religious Archives Group
- February 2013: East London Mosque hosts Exploring and Preserving Mosque Histories seminar in collaboration with the Building on History: Religion in London project
- January 2013: Second bid to the TNA submitted by Shaynul Khan successful – for employment of a professional contract archivist for a year to catalogue the collection
- August 2012: Royal Holloway College archivist Annabel Gill undertakes short project to provide an overview of contents
- April 2012: First funding bid to the National Archives’ Cataloguing Grant Programme – not successful
- 2010: Planning for Centenary activities; Professor Humayun Ansari prepares for publication The Making of the East London Mosque, 1910-1951: Minutes of the London Mosque Fund and East London Mosque(Camden Fifth Series); published in 2011
- August 2010: Cabinets purchased for storage of materials in the Library
- February – September 2009: Hamzah Foreman begins collation of materials from various sites in the East London Mosque for storage in the Library in the London Muslim Centre
- Sometime in the late 1990s: East London Mosque’s veteran community organiser and Chairman of the East London Mosque Trust, Sulaiman Jetha, hands over documents he had kept for safekeeping in his attic to Choudhury Mueenuddin, Secretary, ELMT.
Recent Blog Posts
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Four Scholars of the Qur’an
Left to Right: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (1875-1936); Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953); Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969); Muhammad Hamidullah (1908-2002) The archives of the East London Mosque contain correspondence with four twentieth century translators and...
Dr Jamil Sherif: A History Preserved
On the night of 8th March 1941 a bombing raid over East London damaged a row of terraced houses on Commercial Road”. These included a property that had recently been acquired by the London Mosque Fund to serve as a mosque for lascars and the local Muslim...
Biography of a Mosque: The story of London’s first Mosque, 1910-1942
On the South side of Whitechapel Road in East London between Aldgate East and Whitechapel Tube stations sits the gold dome of the East London Mosque. For some, it is one of many exotic shapes cropping up all over Britain; for local Muslims it is perhaps more...
Dr Muhammad AbdulBari
Trustee , East London Mosque & former Chair of Trustees
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Salahuddeen Haleem
Archivist
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Dr Muhammad AbdulBari
Trustee , East London Mosque & former Chair of Trustees
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- Web Programming 80%
- Internet Marketing 10%
Sufia Alam
Heritage Manager, Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
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Sala
Heritage Manager, Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
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- Photoshop 85%
- After Effects 70%
- Illustrator 50%
Tamsin Bookey
Trustee, Indigent Muslim Burial Fund & Member, East London Mosque Trust
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- Community Management 50%