A view of numbers 440-450 Commercial Road, Stepney. Number 450, at what was the junction of Bower Street, is The East London Mosque. In 1940 three houses (numbers 446-450) were purchased by the London Mosque Fund, converted, and opened in 1941 as the East London Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre. It closed in 1975, when the Greater London Council acquired the premises under a compulsory purchase order. Temporary buildings were provided until the new East London Mosque in Whitechapel Road was opened in 1985. Number 444 and the three mosque buildings are slightly advanced to the rest of the terrace. They are three-storey houses with iron railings, sash windows, a round-headed ground-floor window, and a recessed arched and columned doorway. Number 44 has corrugated iron at its door and ground-floor window. Numbers 440 and 442 are similarly built houses. They have been whitewashed and the wall between the first and second floors, and between the houses, carries the name 'Shaco Sportswear Ltd, Suede and Leather Garments'. Their name is also above the doorway of 442. The ground floor of number 440 is the premises of the East London School of Motoring, with advertising each side of, and inside, the window. There is a bus stop outside. This whole terrace between Bower Street and Albert Gardens has been demolished, and Bower Street truncated. The site is now occupied by a four-storey block of flats, part of the housing estate centred around Bower Street and Lipton Road.