Hecke algebra of $(\mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{Q}), \mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{Z}))$

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In the Wikipedia article about the Hecke algebra of a locally compact group, it is noted that if we take $(\mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{Q}), \mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{Z}))$ as the pair $(G,K)$ of a unimodular locally compact topological group $G$ and a closed subgroup $K$ of $G$ and then look at its Hecke algebra, as in the space of bi-$K$-invariant continuous function of compact support $C_c(G)_K$, we get the usual Hecke algebra generated by the Hecke operators in the theory of modular forms.

Why is that? I get that there is some connection between the "double coset"-construction of the Hecke algebra of modular forms and the biinvariance of such functions, but I can not quite see the link between the maps $T_n: \mathbb{S}^k(\Gamma) \to \mathbb{S}^k(\Gamma)$ and biinvariant maps $f: G \to \mathbb{C}$ with compact support.

I know that there are similar questions on MSE, but most of them refer specifically to an adelic setting, and I think it should be possible to understand this connection without talking about adeles. Thank you in advance!

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This is worked out in detail in my lecture notes "Modular forms and representations of GL(2)", https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/david_loeffler/teaching/tcc-gl2/. See Lecture 5 in particular, section 6.2, for the dictionary between the representation-theoretic and classical definition of the Hecke op $T_p$.