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The Bradford Grand Mosque, or Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam Grand Mosque, is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom. [1] It is located Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. [2] [3] It was founded in 1983, [4] building began in 2002 and it opened in 2012 or 2014.
The Grand Mosque of Bradford is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom.. Islam in England is the second largest religion after Christianity. [1] Most Muslims are immigrants from South Asia (in particular Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India) or descendants of immigrants from that region.
The Al Mahdi Mosque is an Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Bradford, England. The mosque was built at a cost £2.5 million entirely from voluntary donations of British Ahmadi Muslims. The mosque was opened on 7 November 2008 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the current and fifth caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. [1]
However, around 83% of Muslims are proud to be a British citizen, compared to 79% of the general public, 77% of Muslims strongly identify with Britain while only 50% of the wider population do, 86.4% of Muslims feel they belong in Britain, slightly more than the 85.9% of Christians, 82% of Muslims want to live in diverse and mixed ...
In June 2009 Bradford became the world's first UNESCO City of Film and became part of the Creative Cities Network since then. [54] The city has a long history of producing both films and the technology that produces moving film—including the invention of the Cieroscope in Manningham in 1896. [55]
Map of Arabia from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (copy dated to c. 1306 CE). The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-Mamālik [1]) is a group of Islamic manuscripts composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [2]
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In classical Islamic law, there are three major divisions of the world which are dar al-Islam (lit. ' territory of Islam '), denoting regions where Islamic law prevails, [1] dar al-sulh (lit. territory of treaty) denoting non-Islamic lands which are at peace or have an armistice with a Muslim government, [2] and dar al-harb (lit. territory of war), denoting lands that share a border with dar ...