![]() ![]() It is an impressive three storey building, with community meeting rooms and offices on the ground floor. ![]() ![]() The gold dome was added during the 1980s and more recently new galleries and modest extensions to add fire escapes have been added. They secured the land alongside Belgrave Middleway, in Highgate from the city council and started a major fundraising campaign seeking donations from businesses and individuals.īuilding work began in 1969 and took six years to complete. Among those founders was the current chairman Muhammad Afzal. In the late 1960s Birmingham’s Muslim community was congregating in small houses or community halls for their prayers and so a group got together and decided that mosque was needed. There is no foreign Government sponsorship or backing from influential wealthy benefactors as there is at some other places. It also has the benefit of, unlike other prominent mosques, having been built and run entirely on the donations of its congregation. Worshippers of any denomination are welcome to attend and indeed the congregation, which during Friday prayers numbers upwards of 4,000, are drawn from all parts of the Muslim world - Pakistanis, Arabians and Africans all mingle in its vast hall. It was Birmingham’s first ever purpose built mosque and only the second in the UK when it opened its doors to worshippers in 1975.Īnd the Birmingham Central Mosque remains an almost unique institution in the UK not being aligned to any single school of Islam. ![]()
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