Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland
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The Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland, which started its activities as Clonee Mosque, based in the village of Clonee, is the mainstream and leading Islamic Centre in Dublin 15, Ireland.[1] It was established in January 2004 as Clonee Mosque, to act as a place of worship for the Muslim community in Clonee and surrounding areas of Dublin 15.[2]
In 2007, due to the high number of attendees attending Friday prayers, Clonee Mosque relocated to an industrial unit in Damastown.[3] The Islamic Center represents more traditional Sufi-oriented Barelvi movement.[4]
In January 2008, Clonee Mosque was renamed to "Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland", and was inaugurated by the then Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan. Al-Mustafa ICC was represented in the Irish Council of Imams by its founder and Imam, Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri.[5]
Al-Mustafa ICC has approximately 500 members.[6]
Aims and objectives
The aims and objectives of Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre are:
- To provide the Muslim Community in Ireland a religious and spiritual platform to improve their religion and spirituality
- Promote peace, harmony, integration and tolerance
- Promote friendly relations between Muslims and non Muslims
- Provide high quality authentic traditional education to children and youth
- Provide various other services to the Muslim community: Information centre about Islam, Friday prayer, Daily 5 prayers, Fatwa (Islamic Verdicts), Nikah Hajj and Umrah services, Islamic Shariah Courses, Interfaith dialogue and Halal certification of meat and non-meat products.[7]
Activities
There are various educational, cultural and spiritual activities organized by Al-Mustafa ICC.
There are 120 students studying in Al-Mustafa weekend Quran School. In the weekend Quran school students are taught the following subjects: Quran recitation, Memorization of the Quran, Fiqh, Seerah, uloom Al-Quran, uloom Al-Hadith and Islamic history. There are 6 teachers teaching in Al-Mustafa weekend Quran school.[citation needed]
Sisters Halaqah takes place every Sunday.[8]
Jumah Salah (Friday prayer) starts at 1:30 pm with the lecture. The lecture is completely in English and followed by a short Arabic Khutbah and the prayer is held at 2:10pm.[citation needed]
Every Thursday night a halaqah takes place of Zikr.[citation needed]
Al-Mustafa ICC organizes many spiritual events throughout the year (Eid ul-Fitr,[9] Eid ul Adha,[10] Lailat-ul-Qadr,[11] Laylat-um-Mubarakah, Shab Meraaj and Mawlid-un-Nabi[12][13]
The first Mawlid-un-Nabi Procession in Ireland was organized by Al-Mustafa ICC.[13] Leaders of other faith were invited and spoke on the 'Prophet of Peace Conference' which followed after the Mawlid-un-Nabi procession the Islamic Cultural Center.