 Giuseppe Mazzini lived in London for some years and promoted the construction of the Italian church of St. Peter in the "Little Italy" of Clerkenwell (a London neighbourhood) The Italian-style basilica was inaugurated in 1863 and was the main place of reunion for the growing Italian community of London.The Risorgimento hero Mazzini also created an Italian school for poor people, active from November 1841 at Greville Street in London.By the time WWI started, the Italian community was well established in London and other areas of the British isles (there were nearly 20,000 Italians in the United Kingdom in 1915).