History of the GLMCC BuildingThe GLMCC building is a Grade II listed structure with a rich history dating back to...
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Central Oxford Mosque remains one of the largest places of workship for Muslims in the city. The mosque was founded...
This was an Ahmadiyya Mosque established in the 1980s. It was located on Cowley Road, but the precise location is...
Founded in 1968, the Bath Street mosque was the first formal site of worship for Oxford's Muslim community, and largely...
A mosque and welfare house opened in 1984 to primarily serve the Deobandi sect of Muslims living in Oxford. The...
The Bangladesh Islamic Centre was founded in the 1980s by the first generation of Bangladeshis to settle in Oxford. Today,...
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Central Oxford Mosque
Central Oxford Mosque remains one of the largest places of workship for Muslims in the city. The mosque was founded after crowdfunding primarily amongst Oxford's Pakistani community. The Central Oxford Mosque Society raised £2 million across the 1990s and lobbied the council for permission to use the site to build a mosque that could accommodate Oxford's growing Muslim community. The first stone was laid on 13 April 2001 and, in 2003, the site was officially opened. The mosque was designed by Mohammd Ehsam, according to the principles of Islamic architecture.
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Aleena Din - Aleena is a historian of gender, class and race in modern Britain. Her DPhil research, which was completed at Balliol College and the Faculty of History in 2022, focuses on the migration, settlement and labour experiences of working-class British-Pakistani women who settled in Middlesbrough and Oldham between 1962 and 2002. Aleena is the co-investigator of the community history project 'A Muslim History of Oxford', in collaboration with the national heritage organisation 'Everyday Muslim'. In addition, she is a postdoctoral research associate for the digital humanities project, 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830 to the Present' at the University of Bristol (2025).
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