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Abbey Mills Mosque: what Wikipedia removed

The Abbey Mills (“mega-mosque”) project by Tablighi Jamaat near London’s 2012 Olympic Park drew public controversy over its planned size and the group’s alleged ties. The opening once listed among the controversies alleged links between Tablighi Jamaat and Islamic terrorism. Today’s opening covers the mosque’s size, ownership and planning history without stating the terrorism allegation; the word survives 7 times in the body but not in the opening. A reader today learns the mosque project was controversial and not that the controversy included alleged terrorism links to its backing organization.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 7. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The naming and alias sentence was reworded, not lost.
  • The originally reported size claims for the mosque are gone from the opening.
  • The description of Tablighi Jamaat as the builder was reworded, not lost.
  • The allegation of links between Tablighi Jamaat and Islamic terrorism is gone from the opening.
  • The description of public response to the mosque was reworded, not lost.
  • The detail about the expiration of the site’s building permit is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 365055225):

The Abbey Mills Mosque , also known as the London Markaz or Masjid-e-Ilyas , was a proposed mosque and Islamic centre to have been built on an 7.3-hectare (18-acre) site in Stratford , east London. It was originally reported that the structure, had it been built, would have been the largest religious building in Britain and the largest mosque in Europe. For this reason it is often informally referred to in the press as the ” mega-mosque ”. The mosque would have been built by Tablighi Jamaat (a Muslim missionary movement) near the site of the London 2012 Olympic Park. Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen is Tablighi Jamaat’s charitable trust and has been the owner of the site since 1996. The Tablighi …

2025 (revision 1288831539):

Mosque in London, England “Mega mosque” redirects here. For the proposed New York City community centre, see Park51 . The Abbey Mills Mosque , also known as the London Markaz or Masjid-e-Ilyas ( Arabic : مسجد إلياس ), is a temporary mosque located in Stratford , east London, accommodating around 2,500 people. Plans were made to expand the capacity of the mosque to what would have been the largest religious building in Britain – three times the size of St Paul’s Cathedral – and one of the largest mosques in western Europe. For this reason the proposed building is often informally referred to in the press as the ” mega-mosque ”. The mosque extension was to have been built by Tablighi Jamaat , …

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