Whitechapel
Whitechapel is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the borough town centre.
Places of Interest
Highlights include East London Mosque and The Tower of London.
East London Mosque
Mosque
The East London Mosque is situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets between Whitechapel and Aldgate East. Combined with the adjoining London Muslim Centre and Maryam Centre, it is one of the largest mosques in Western Europe accommodating more than 7,000 worshippers for congregational prayers.
The Tower of London
Brick Lane
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mile End New Town and Spitalfields.
Mile End New Town
Locality
Mile End New Town is a former hamlet and then civil parish in the East End of London. Its former area is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the 1911 census, Mile End New Town had a population of 11,341.
Spitalfields
Quarter
St George in the East
Quarter
Photo: Klusiwurm, Public domain.Whitechapel
- Type: Suburb with 14,900 residents
- Description: district within East London, England, UK
- Categories: town, area of London, and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51749° or 51° 31′ 3″ north
Longitude
-0.06597° or 0° 3′ 58″ west
Population
14,900
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WC8
Open location code
9C3XGW8M+XJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Whitechapel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Whitechapel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايت تشابل”
- Asturian: “Whitechapel”
- Azerbaijani: “Uaytçepel”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaytçepel”
- Basque: “Whitechapel”
- Breton: “Whitechapel”
- Bulgarian: “Уайтчапъл”
- Catalan: “Whitechapel”
- Chinese: “怀特查珀尔”
- Chinese: “白教堂 (倫敦)”
- Chinese: “白教堂”
- Czech: “Whitechapel”
- Danish: “Whitechapel”
- Dutch: “Whitechapel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايت تشابل”
- Esperanto: “Blankkapelo”
- Finnish: “Whitechapel”
- French: “Whitechapel District”
- French: “Whitechapel”
- Galician: “Whitechapel”
- German: “Whitechapel”
- Greek: “Ουάιτσαπελ”
- Hebrew: “וייטצ’אפל”
- Hindi: “व्हाइटचैपल”
- Hindi: “ह्वाइटचैपल”
- Hungarian: “Whitechapel”
- Indonesian: “Whitechapel”
- Irish: “Whitechapel”
- Italian: “Whitechapel”
- Japanese: “Whitechapel”
- Japanese: “ホワイト・チャペル”
- Japanese: “ホワイトチャッペル”
- Japanese: “ホワイトチャペル”
- Korean: “화이트채플”
- Ladin: “Whitechapel”
- Latin: “Alba Capella”
- Macedonian: “Вајтчепел”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whitechapel”
- Norwegian: “Whitechapel”
- Persian: “وایتچپل، لندن”
- Persian: “وایتچپل”
- Polish: “Whitechapel”
- Portuguese: “Whitechapel”
- Russian: “Whitechapel”
- Russian: “Уайтчепел”
- Scots: “Whitechapel”
- Serbian: “Вајтчепел”
- Slovenian: “Whitechapel”
- South Azerbaijani: “وایتچپل، لندن”
- Spanish: “Districto de Whitechapel”
- Spanish: “Whitechapel”
- Swedish: “Whitechapel”
- Sylheti: “ꠗꠟꠣꠌꠣꠙꠦꠟ”
- Sylheti: “ꠢꠥꠀꠁꠐ꠆ꠌꠣꠙꠦꠟ”
- Turkish: “Whitechapel”
- Ukrainian: “Вайтчепел”
- Urdu: “وائٹ چیپل”
- Urdu: “وائیٹچیپل”
- Vietnamese: “Whitechapel”
- Welsh: “Whitechapel”
- Wu Chinese: “白庙区”
- Yue Chinese: “白教堂”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Whitechapel”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Goodmans Fields and Aldgate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Al-Mizan School and London East Academy.
England: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Leeds.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.