Al-Manar Centre
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| Location | Cathays, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
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| Type | Mosque |
| Date established | 1992 |
The al-Manar Centre (sometimes referred to as 2 Glynrhondda Street) is a Sunni[1] mosque in the Cathays district of Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1992, it describes itself as being "one of [the] Ahlus-Sunnah organisations".[2] A widely circulated claim holds that a mosque was registered at this address in 1860, which would make the Al-Manar Centre the oldest mosque in the United Kingdom.[3][4] This has, however, been shown to result from a transcription error in the Register of Religious Sites,[5] making the Liverpool Muslim Institute, established in 1891,[6] the first.
See also
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[edit]- ^ "Dani Garavelli: How to counter radicalisation".
- ^ "About us". Al-Manar Centre. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ "From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques". The Guardian. 18 June 2002. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
- ^ "Islam and Britain". BBC. 2002. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
- ^ Gilliat-Ray, Sophie (July 2010). "The first registered mosque in the UK, Cardiff, 1860': the evolution of a myth". Contemporary Islam. 4 (2): 179–193. doi:10.1007/s11562-010-0116-9. ISSN 1872-0218. S2CID 145759796.
- ^ "Liverpool Mosque and Muslim Institute". Open University. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
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