As-Salafi Mosque

{{Short description|Mosque in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom}}

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| location = Small Heath, Birmingham, England

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| religious_affiliation = Sunni Islam

| sect = Salafi

| status = Mosque

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The As-Salafi Mosque, also known as the Salafi Mosque and as the Wright Street Mosque, is a Salafi Sunni mosque, located in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands region of England, in the United Kingdom. The mosque was founded in 2002{{cite web |publisher=Salafi Publications|url=http://www.salafievents.com/salafievents-dev/centres/salafi-publications/ |title=Salafi Publications |date=2011-04-25 |accessdate=2014-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324183557/http://www.salafievents.com/salafievents-dev/centres/salafi-publications/ |archive-date=24 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}{{self-published-inline|date=January 2025}} and is situated near the intersection of Muntz and Wright Streets and just behind Coventry Road.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrightstreetmosque.com/the-present-salafi-masjid/ |title=The Present Salafi Masjid - The Salafi Masjid |website=Wrightstreetmosque.com |date=2013-12-28 |accessdate=2014-03-24}}{{self-published-inline|date=January 2025}}

Overview

The mosque is contained within the same building and connected to the registered charity and Islamic materials publisher Salafi Publications and the "Salafi Bookstore".{{EW charity|1083080}}

According to the mosque director, Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid,{{Cite web|date=2020-07-26|title=Why do members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Group become Shia?|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2020/07/26/Why-do-members-of-the-Muslim-Brotherhood-and-Islamic-Group-become-Shia-|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Al Arabiya English|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Persia|first=Track|date=2019-06-15|title=The historical relationship between the Iranian theocracy and Muslim Brothers in Egypt|url=https://www.trackpersia.com/historical-relationship-iranian-theocracy-muslim-brothers-egypt/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Track Persia|language=en-GB|archive-date=30 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530235155/https://www.trackpersia.com/historical-relationship-iranian-theocracy-muslim-brothers-egypt/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|date=2018-09-03|title=Why Sayed Qutb inspired Iran's Khomeini and Khamenei|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/09/03/Why-Sayed-Qutb-inspired-Iran-s-Khomeini-and-Khamenei|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Al Arabiya English|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Stamp: Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) (Iran) (19th death of Sayyid Qutb) Mi:IR 2078,Sn:IR 2158,Yt:IR 1891,Sg:IR 2252|url=https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/460433-Sayyid_Qutb_1906-1966-19th_death_of_Sayyid_Qutb-Iran|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Colnect|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon {{!}} Sayyid Qutb and Nearness With Rafidees: Nawab Safawi Al-Shi'iyy|url=http://www.ikhwanis.com/print.cfm?mfvhkde|access-date=2021-06-17|website=www.ikhwanis.com}}{{Cite web|last=Abdul-Wahid|first=Abu Khadeejah|date=2017-03-23|title=Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida, Hasan al-Banna: Modernism, Revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood.|url=https://www.abukhadeejah.com/jamal-aldin-afghani-muhammad-abduh-rashid-rida-hasan-albanna-radicals-modernists/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=Abu Khadeejah : أبو خديجة|language=en-GB}} 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. According to mosque flyers, there are usually Islamic-based lessons every day of the week{{cite web|url=http://www.salafitalk.com/threads/780-Weekly-Lessons-Masjid-as-Salafi-Birmingham-UK-Live-on-Paltalk |title=Weekly Lessons @ Masjid as-Salafi, Birmingham UK|publisher=Salafitalk.com|date=2011-12-27|accessdate=2014-03-24}} as well as seasonal conferences{{cite web|url=http://www.salafitalk.com/threads/1797-Birmingham-Winter-Conference-Masjid-as-Salafi-25th-26th-Decenber |title=Birmingham Winter Conference @ Masjid as-Salafi 25th-26th December|publisher=Salafitalk.com|date=2013-12-23|accessdate=2014-03-24}} which can attract approximately 3,000 attendees from the UK and throughout Europe.{{cite news|last=Isherwood|first=Julian|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1405871/Hijack-suspect-is-known-criminal.html |title=Hijack suspect is known criminal|newspaper=Telegraph|date=2002-08-31|accessdate=2014-03-24}}

Dawud Burbank (Abu Talhah) was a former senior lecturer at the mosque.{{cite news|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/funeral-for-small-heath-couple-killed-164528 |title=Funeral for Small Heath couple killed by bus fire on pilgrimage to Mecca|newspaper=Birmingham Mail|date=2011-11-03|accessdate=2014-03-24}}

{{as of|2012}}, the As-Salafi Mosque was one of one-hundred and sixty-three mosques in Birmingham.{{cite web|url=http://mosques.muslimsinbritain.org/show-mosque.php?id=133 |title=Masjid as-Salafi|date=20 December 2012 |accessdate=1 January 2013}} It was also one of six mosques in the Small Heath Park area.

References

External links

{{cite web|url=http://www.mosquedirectory.co.uk/mosques/England/West-Midlands/birmingham/small-heath/masjid-as-salafi-small-heath-birmingham/969 |title=Masjid as-Salafi (Small Heath, Birmingham)}}
[http://www.salafipublications.com/sp/ Salafi Publications]

Category:2002 establishments in England

Category:21st-century mosques in the United Kingdom

Category:Mosques in Birmingham, West Midlands

Category:Mosques completed in 2002

Category:Salafi mosques in the United Kingdom

Category:Small Heath, Birmingham

Category:Sunni mosques in England

As-Salafi Mosque

Overview

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