Masjid As-Salafi

Masjid as-Salafi
Basic information
Location Small Heath, Birmingham, England, UK
Affiliation Islam
Architectural description
Architectural type Mosque
Architectural style Salafi
Capacity 800

Masjid as-Salafi, also known as "The Salafi Mosque" or "Wright Street", is a Salafist mosque founded in 2002[1] and located in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, meters from the intersection of Muntz and Wright Streets and just behind Coventry Road.[2] The mosque is contained within the same building and connected to the registered charity and Islamic materials publisher Salafi Publications and the "SalafiBookstore".[3]

According to the mosque director, Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid, more than a thousand men, women, and children pray the Friday 'jum'ah' Prayers there, and the mosque also contains a primary school and an evening Qur'an memorization school.[1] According to mosque flyers, there are usually Islamic-based lessons every day of the week[4] as well as seasonal conferences[5] which can attract around 3000 attendees from the UK and around Europe.[6]

During a 2002 season conference, the international media spotlight was set upon Masjid As-Salafi when a Swedish ex-criminal Kerim Chatty, who was due to attend the conference, was arrested in Sweden for carrying a firearm, presumably forgotten in his luggage, and later charged with firearms offence (not attempted hijacking).[6] Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid issued a public statement, stating that the individual was unknown to the organizers of the conference, and he then relayed the positions of Salafism in regards to terrorism based on the rulings (fatwa) of Islamic scholars like Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, and Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i.[7]

Dawud Burbank (Abu Talhah) was a former senior lecturer, before his death in 2011, in Masjid Salafi.[8]

Masjid Salafi is one of the 163 mosques in the city of Birmingham, England.[9] It is also one of six mosques in the area of Small Heath Park.

References

  1. 1 2 "Salafi Publications". Salafi Publications. 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  2. ↑ "The Present Salafi Masjid - The Salafi Masjid". Wrightstreetmosque.com. 2013-12-28. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  3. ↑ Charity Commission. Masjid As-Salafi, registered charity no. 1083080.
  4. ↑ "Weekly Lessons @ Masjid as-Salafi, Birmingham UK". Salafitalk.com. 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  5. ↑ "Birmingham Winter Conference @ Masjid as-Salafi 25th-26th December". Salafitalk.com. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  6. 1 2 Isherwood, Julian (2002-08-31). "Hijack suspect is known criminal". Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  7. ↑ "Full text: Abu Khadeejah's statement on the alleged hijacker". theguardian.com. 2002-08-30. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  8. ↑ "Funeral for Small Heath couple killed by bus fire on pilgrimage to Mecca". Birmingham Mail. 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  9. ↑ "Masjid as-Salafi". 20 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


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