Al-Manar Centre

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Al-Manar Centre
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Location Cathays, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Architecture
Type Mosque
Date established1992

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.

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  1. ↑ "Dani Garavelli: How to counter radicalisation".
  2. ↑ "About us". Al-Manar Centre. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques". The Guardian. 18 June 2002. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
  4. ↑ "Islam and Britain". BBC. 2002. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Liverpool Mosque and Muslim Institute". Open University. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

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