Editing Brixton (section)

==Religious sites==

===Christian churches===
[[File:Mass in Brixton sept 07.jpg|thumb|upright|St Matthew's Brixton]]
Brixton lies within the [[Anglican Diocese of Southwark]].<ref name="anglican-southwark">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/lambeth-north |title=Lambeth North Deanery |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065451/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/lambeth-north |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> The grade II*listed [[St Matthew's Church, Brixton|St Matthew's Church]], located on Brixton Green, was built in 1822 by the architect [[C. F. Porden]] in the [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49772 |title=Brixton: Rush Common |editor1-first=F. H. W. |editor1-last=Sheppard |work=Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1956 |access-date=10 June 2013 |archive-date=12 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912192219/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49772 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is one of the "[[Waterloo church]]es" built to celebrate Britain's victory at the [[Battle of Waterloo]].
St. Saviour's Church was a location filming site of Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' in 1955, identified in the film as Ambrose Chapel.

The 1868 parish church of St Jude, located on Dulwich Road, was designed by the architect [[John Kirk (architect)|John Kirk]] of [[Woolwich]]. It closed in 1975, and the parish merged with St Matthew's. The church building is today used as business premises by a publishing company.<ref name="stjude">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/EAS01.pdf |title=East Brixton St Jude |work=Former places of worship in the Diocese of Southwark |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |archive-date=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065550/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/EAS01.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Christ Church Brixton Road|Christ Church on Brixton Road]] is an [[Art Nouveau]] and [[Byzantine]]-style [[Listed building|Grade II* listed building]] built in 1902 by [[Beresford Pite]],<ref name="christchurch">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/040j |title=East Brixton Rd Christ Church |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065751/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/040j |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> and St Paul's church on Ferndale Road was originally built in 1958 as a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] church by [[John Soper]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=7 November 2014 |title=St Paul, Ferndale Road, Brixton |url=https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2014/11/07/st-paul-ferndale-road-brixton/ |access-date=13 October 2022 |website=London Churches in photographs |language=en}}</ref>

[[Corpus Christi Church, Brixton|Corpus Christi Church]] in Brixton comes under the remit of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark]].<ref name="catholic-southwark">{{cite web |url=http://directory.rcsouthwark.co.uk/brixton_hill_corpusxti.html |title=Corpus Christi Brixton Hill |publisher=Archdiocese of Southwark |access-date=12 August 2009 |archive-date=23 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223071031/http://directory.rcsouthwark.co.uk/brixton_hill_corpusxti.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Brixton Mosque===
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The [[Masjid ibn Taymeeyah]], or Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, is located in Gresham Road, close to Brixton Police Station. The mosque has facilities for both men and women and space for 400 worshippers during prayer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salaam.co.uk/mosques/searchmosque.php?orgcode=150 |title=Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre |website=Salaam.co.uk |access-date=20 June 2010 |archive-date=17 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817131918/http://www.salaam.co.uk/mosques/searchmosque.php?orgcode=150 |url-status=live }}</ref> Opened in 1990, it is one of the oldest mosques in south London. The mosque provides religious, social and financial support to its members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/greater-london/london-south-west/brixton-stockwell/attractions/heritage/brixton-mosque |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209092851/http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/greater-london/london-south-west/brixton-stockwell/attractions/heritage/brixton-mosque |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 December 2008 |title=Brixton Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre, Museums, Heritage UK |website=Totaltravel.co.uk}}</ref>

The mosque made international headlines when it was reported that [[Richard Reid (shoe bomber)|Richard Reid]], the so-called "shoe bomber", had attended the mosque. [[Abdul Haqq Baker]], chairman of Brixton Mosque, told the BBC that Reid came to the mosque to learn about Islam but soon fell in with what he called "more extreme elements".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1729022.stm |work=BBC News |title=Shoe bomb suspect 'one of many' |date=26 December 2001 |access-date=27 April 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202171047/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1729022.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks, made his initial steps into radical indoctrination in Brixton Mosque, where he met Reid, though he was expelled from the mosque after he turned up wearing combat fatigues and a backpack, and pressured the cleric to give him information on joining the ''[[jihad]]''. [[Abdullah el-Faisal]], a radical Muslim cleric who preached in the UK until imprisoned for stirring up hatred and later deported to Jamaica in 2007, was associated with the Brixton Mosque and began preaching to crowds of up to 500 people, but was ousted by its [[Salafi]] administration in 1993.<ref name="Telegraph07">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/25/npreach125.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227161116/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F05%2F25%2Fnpreach125.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 December 2007 |title=7 July preacher Abdullah El-Faisal deported |access-date=23 December 2007 |last=Johnston |first=Philip |date=27 May 2007 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref> Afterward, he gave a lecture he called ''The Devil's Deception of the Saudi Salafis'', scorning the [[Salafi]] Muslims (especially the members of the Brixton Mosque), calling them hypocrites and [[apostate]]s (''[[takfir]]'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0sI6xgh-M&mode=related&search= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720095856/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0sI6xgh-M&mode=related&search= |archive-date=20 July 2013 |url-status=dead |title=Video of lecture 'The Devil's Deception of the Saudi Salafis' |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>

===Brixton Synagogue===
Brixton Synagogue at 49 Effra Road opened in 1913 and closed in 1986, with the congregation then amalgamating with the nearby [[Streatham Synagogue]]. The front of the building still exists.<ref>[http://www.southlondon.org/ South London Synagogue] Southlondon.org. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531092318/http://www.southlondon.org/Brixton%20synagogue.jpg |date=31 May 2010 }}</ref>