North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park, London, was built in the 1990s to serve the large Muslim population in the area. It has a capacity of 1,800 people.
Until 2005 it was known as Finsbury Park Mosque. The mosque was riven with leadership disputes in the 1990s, allowing extremist Islamist preachers (many of whom were refugees from the Algerian Civil War) to take it over. In 1996 they installed Abu Hamza al-Masri as imam of the mosque, which subsequently developed a reputation as a centre of radical Islamism in London.
Read more about North London Central Mosque: History and Location, Former Terrorism Links, Change of Leadership
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