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Altab Ali Park is a small park on Adler Street, White Church Lane and Whitechapel Road, London E1.〔(Parks in Tower Hamlets )〕 Formerly known as St. Mary's Park, it is the site of the old 14th-century white chapel, St. Mary Matfelon, from which the area of Whitechapel gets its name.〔(Exploring East London: Whitechapel )〕 Having been destroyed in The Blitz in 1940, all that remains of the old church is the floor plan and a few graves. Included among those buried on the site are Richard Parker, Richard Brandon, Sir John Cass,〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2164022〕 and "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, "Mayor of Garratt". The park was renamed Altab Ali Park in 1998 in memory of Altab Ali, a 25-year-old Bangladeshi clothing worker, who was murdered on 4 May 1978 in Adler Street by three teenage boys as he walked home from work. At the entrance to the park is an arch created by David Petersen, developed as a memorial to Altab Ali and other victims of racist attacks. The arch incorporates a complex Bengali-style pattern, meant to show the merging of different cultures in East London.〔http://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/race-equality/71/altab-ali-murdered-in-whitechapel-london.html〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/3187/ )〕 Along the path down the centre of the park are letters spelling out "The shade of my tree is offered to those who come and go fleetingly" – a fragment of a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The Shaheed Minar, which commemorates the Bengali Language Movement, stands in the southwest corner of Altab Ali Park. The monument is a smaller replica of the one in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and symbolises a mother and her martyred sons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaheed Minar )〕 The nearest London Underground station is Aldgate East on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Altab Ali Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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