God on the high street: the adaptive beauty of shopfront mosques
Architect and local resident Eddie Blake examines how mosque traditions are being shaped to fit on the high street, wedding
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Culture & communities
Your guide to the communities, cultures, creative endeavours and personal stories of the people who live in the neighbourhoods around Roman Road
Anton Rodriguez looks inside Bow Quarter [GALLERY]
Photographer Anton Rodriguez, the genius behind the Residents: Inside the Barbican project, takes a look at the interior of some of
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Jack Ramadan: Bow’s boxing club hero
Jack Ramadan might be a fighting-fit England boxing coach, but it takes a very long time for him to get
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Local students talk about what Ramadan means to them today
It is the start of Ramadan this week. To many it is known as a month of fasting but, like
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Local resident Zoë Gower-Jones on her Roman Road photography project
Borne out of a love for photography, Roman Road local Zoë Gower-Jones’s Can I Take Your Picture? project began on 1 January
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Allen Staines: Bow Garage, the No 8 Bus and the new Routemaster
We find out what happens inside Bow Garage and talk to Allen Staines about how life as a number 8
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Home birth pioneer Claire Davis on breastfeeding and living in a Pankhurst house
The East End has a proud history of strong women working for women’s rights, and it seems it still attracts pioneering women. We
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