Didsbury Mosque
| Didsbury Mosque | |
|---|---|
 View from the intersection of Barlow Moor Road & Burton Road | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Salafi Islam[1] |
| District | West Didsbury |
| Location | |
| Location |  271 Burton Road, West Didsbury, Manchester, England[1] |
| Geographic coordinates | 53°25′22″N 2°14′49″W / 53.42278°N 2.24694°W |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Chapel |
| Completed | 1883 / 1962 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Dome(s) | 0 |
| Minaret(s) | 1 |
The Didsbury Mosque, and the Manchester Islamic Centre,[1] are co-located on Burton Road, West Didsbury in Manchester, England. The building was originally the "Albert Park Methodist Chapel", which opened for worship in 1883,[2] but in 1962 the chapel closed and was later converted into a mosque. It has an attendance of around 1,000 people.[3] The Manchester Islamic Centre is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission.[4]
The attacker of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing was identified as UK-born 22-year-old, Salman Ramadan Abedi who was said to worship at Didsbury Mosque, where his father Ramadan Abedi, a security officer, was said to be "a well-known figure".[5][6][7] The older brother Ismail Abedi was a tutor in the mosque's Qur'an school.[8] Salman Abedi also worked on the mosque and had, "learned the Qur'an by heart".[9] He was said to have looked at a senior figure, "with hate" for giving a sermon on the sanctity of life.[6]
A trustee of the mosque has said, "We don’t know who he is. We’ve never seen him."[10]
References
- ^ a b c "Didsbury Mosque and Islamic Centre". 25 April 2015.
- ^ France & Woodall (1976). A New History of Didsbury. E.J. Morten, 203. ISBN 0-85972-035-7
- ^ South Manchester Reporter: News: True meaning of Islam Archived March 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "327235 - The Islamic Centre (Manchester)".
- ^ "Manchester Arena attacker named by police as Salman Ramadan Abedi". The Guardian. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Manchester attack: Who was the suspect Salman Abedi?". BBC News. 2017-05-23. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
- ^ Parveen, Ian Cobain Frances Perraudin Steven Morris Nazia (2017-05-23). "Manchester Arena attacker named by police as Salman Ramadan Abedi". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
- ^ "The face of hate': Manchester Arena attack suspect Salman Abedi's home raided, disturbing book found". 24 May 2017.
- ^ "Salman Abedi & Didsbury Mosque: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". 23 May 2017.
- ^ Bounds, Andy (23 May 2017). "Manchester suicide bomber moved from gangs to radical Islam". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 May 2017.(subscription required)
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