umbra sumus, fournier st. chapel, stepney, london

"we are shadows" reminds this [rather neo-platonic] sundial on the building put up as a huguenot chapel in 1743, this later became a wesleyan methodist chape and then a mission hall . it was bought in 1898 by russian and polish ashkenazi jews seeking stricter orthodoxy than came with the charity of the anglicised diaspora jews of hampstead and mayfair, until they in turn either carried on to the states or became the anglicised jews of golders green. it then ended up in the hands of bangadeshi moslems seeking their own orthodoxies, and is at present known as brick lane mosque. this history surely says something about london, immigration and religious toleration, but I'm not sure what. I await its next incarnation with interest; perhaps pagans from mars?