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1950 - 1968

Jamal’s Tandoori Restaurant

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Jamal's Tandoori Restaurant has been a significant place of networking for Muslims across the city. During the 1950s and 1960s, the building's basement was home to the city's first place of worship. Archival evidence has demonstrated that Muslim students - who were part of the university society, the Oxford Union - used to attend Jummah prayers here before the Bath Street Mosque was established.

Bath Street Mosque, in St Clements, was the first makeshift mosque in Oxford, established in 1968. Until Oxford Central Mosque on Manzil Way was opened in 2003, this was the primary site of worship for Muslims in the city. Some interviewees remembered how a bus would travel through the city to collect children for Islamic education classes after school in Bath Street mosque.

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JMOX SOC 18, OU Islamic Union term card, 6 May 1968, Islamic Society, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library,University of Oxford, Oxford. 

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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