Title

London Central Mosque and The Islamic Cultural Centre, Park Road, Regent's Park, GLA, 24/09/1975. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

London Central Mosque and The Islamic Cultural Centre, Park Road, Regent's Park, City of Westminster, Greater London Authority, 24/09/1975. A view of the minaret at the London Central Mosque being slipformed in two concentric cylinders, with a crane lowering concrete to the men working on the platform. The minaret of the London Central Mosque was constructed using a slipforming technique, in which concrete is poured into the top of a continuously moving form. The form is raised at a rate which allows the concrete to harden and emerge from the form maintaining its shape. The minaret was formed in two concentric cylinders using the slip form shutter, with a lift located in the central area and a spiral staircase between the two walls. The concrete for the 43 metre high minaret was poured in 10 days from the 15th - 25th September 1975. The site team worked in 12-hour long day and night shifts, six days a week, to achieve this.

Date

1975

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21A84_500

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

81,0Mb (3,7Mb) / 17,6in x 17,8in / 5286 x 5353 (300dpi)

Keywords

building London England people male work job man men religious architecture mosque worker country religion construction site guy occupation British crane cranes English Islam Islamic minaret minarets building site concrete location century Britain profession construction worker concept United Kingdom B&W seventies 1970s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W lowering 20th century workers TGN working photograph Frederick Gibberd Gibberd Frederick London Central Mosque Regent's Park Mosque Sir Frederick Gibberd Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc