Editing Finsbury Park Mosque (section)

===1988–1997: Opening===
In the 1960s a small room in a guest house at 7 Woodfall Road, London N4 was used as a prayer room and community centre for the handful of [[Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]] Muslims then working and living in the district, and had become inadequate for the growing Muslim community by the time the building was compulsorily purchased by the local authority as part of a Housing Action Plan. The community formed a Muslim Welfare Centre, and in 1975 purchased its own property at St. Thomas's Road, later also acquiring neighbouring plots. A mosque first came into use on the site in 1988, when it was one of the largest mosques in the UK.<ref name="BBCBattleForTheMosque"/> In 1994 a new 5-storey mosque building was officially opened in a ceremony attended by [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] and King [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] who had contributed funds for the building.<ref name=MoreThanJustAMosque>{{cite news|title=Finsbury Park Mosque: "Its more than just a mosque now"|url=https://islingtonnow.co.uk/finsbury-park-mosque-its-more-than-just-a-mosque-now/}}</ref><ref>[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901030203-411394,00.html Inside Finsbury Park Mosque] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308160150/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901030203-411394,00.html |date=8 March 2021 }}, TIME, January 2003</ref><ref name="PolicyExchangeHijacking">[http://www.euro-islam.info/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/hijacking_of_british_islam.pdf MacEoin, Denis. "The Hijacking of British Islam." How extremist literature is subverting mosques in the UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929053321/http://www.euro-islam.info/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/hijacking_of_british_islam.pdf |date=29 September 2018 }} (Policy Exchange 2007) (2007), page 77.</ref><ref name="EdgeHardLawSoftPower">[http://www.lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/EDGE%20FINAL.pdf Hard Law and Soft Power: Counter-Terrorism, the Power of Sacred Places, and the Establishment of an Anglican Islam] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417075602/http://www.lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/EDGE%20FINAL.pdf |date=2012-04-17 }}, Peter W. Edge, RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION, Spring 2010, pages 366-371</ref>