Sunni Dawate Islami

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Sunni Dawate Islami
AbbreviationSDI
Formation1990
Founder Shakir Ali Noori
Founded at Mumbai
TypeReligious organisation
Legal statusactive
Headquarters132 Kambekar Street, Fine Mansion, 1st Floor, Mumbai 400003, Maharashtra
OriginsIndia
Region
Worldwide
Ameer
Shakir Ali Noori
AffiliationsSunni Islam
Website sunnidawateislami.net

Sunni Dawate Islami is an Indian Non-governmental and socio-religious organisation which works for sunni muslims of India [1] founded by Muhammad Shakir Ali Noori in 1990. [2] [3] [4] It is headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra and other offices abroad. [5] They organise International Sunni Ijtema at Azad Maidan, Mumbai [6] [7] [8] for 2 days. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] It completed its 20th Annual Conference in 2010 [14] and 30th Annual Conference in 2022. [15] [16] [17] [18] It takes out a great procession of Juloos-e-Muhammadi on the occasion of Eid-ul-Milad-un-Nabi every year. [19] [20] [21]

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International Sunni Ijtema It holds an annual conference Ijtema in Mumbai, which is said to be attended by between 150,000 [22] and 300,000 people; [23] the first day (Friday) is reserved for women. [2] [24] Followers of Sunni Dawate Islami wear white turbans. [2]

Centres

In 2008, SDI had a European headquarters at Noor Hall in Preston, England, and centres in some other English towns, including: Blackburn, Bolton, Leicester and Manchester. [2] SDI also had a North American headquarters in Chicago. [2] By 2008, SDI had founded 12 madrasas in India. [2]

In 2020, SDI says that in India it manages 50 madrasas and 15 schools that teach in English. SDI says it has an educational centre in Bolton (England), [25] and an educational centre in Mauritius. [25]

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