 With its large, elegant frontage—a combination of Grecian and Italian Renaissance styles—directly facing the main road, this lavish building came to dominate its streetscene at a time when chapel architecture in the East End of London was generally low-key.The bold design was financed by the shipyard owner George Green, a prominent local Congregationalist with non-denominational sympathies.Green contributed to many philanthropic causes in Poplar and Blackwall