Also known as, or co-located with: Mohammediya Mosque
Former Baptist Chapel and beauty parlour.
2 Park Terrace East, Horsham, West Sussex,
RH13 5DN,Borough: Horsham
Ward: Horsham Park
Constituency: Horsham
200
Theme: Deobandi
Deobandi: Covers Tablighi Jama'at of course. Deobandis are divided about the importance of Sufism and generally play it down, so we have used 'Sufi' only for those places that are keen to promote Tassawuf
We highlight different factional interests among Muslims according to some fairly broad mainstream categories, "Bareilvi", "Deobandi" etc.
This is euphemistically defined as the masjid's 'Theme', and you may find this contentious.
It is a point of principle among most conscientious Muslims that the community is a single entity.
While that is a noble sentiment, it is patently obvious that there are clear divisions between Muslims and between masaajid,
based on religious and ethnic differences.
While many Muslims are content to use any masjid, many others make careful choices about where to go.
And for those who would like a change, the information will help you pick somewhere different.
Any masjid is certain to have users who follow different practices,
and this is something to appreciate (unlike other religions which are unshakably denominational).
However where a doctrine dominates, that will clearly influence what is practised at that location.
Further reading from our book, Islam and Muslims in Britain - A Guide:
Management: Gujerati and Pakistani
It would be Islamically immoral to label masaajid as 'belonging' to a given ethnicity, yet this is the reality of most masaajid.
Many were set up as centres for a particular community and it is important for that community to have somewhere where events,
speeches and madressah teaching are in the mother-tongue. However it would be useful to have an 'ethnicity index',
in which a masjid scores 1 for each committee member of a different ethnicity.
Meanwhile we have highlighted masjid monoculture by naming the management's dominant ethnicity.
Further reading from our book, Islam and Muslims in Britain - A Guide:
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HistoryThe minute number of Muslims in Horsham have struggled against a body of hostile residents and councillors since around 1994 to have a place of worship approved for their use. They acquired the use of an industrial premises and then a private house, only for planning permission for each to be refused. Racist local residents formed an \"action group\" to obstruct their efforts. In 2008 they acquired the former Independent Jireh Baptist Chapel, and even this purpose-built place of worship attracted oppositio
Registered charity, view:
Charity Commission Report
This automated link opens the Charity Commission's or Scottish Charity Commission's web site report for this masjid.
(a) Not all masjids are, or need to be, charities, including those with turnover under 5,000 pounds per annum.
(b) Some masjids have more than one associated charity, but only one is linked here.
(c) The circumstances of the charity do not necessarily reflect the circumstances of the masjid or disputes over title.
(c) The link and the reference number it uses, may not be the current applicable charity.
Premises was formerly: Church
Most masjids are former terraced houses or commercial premises. A small number are former derelict churches.
Since the issues of architectural styles and renovation of churches as masjids has become controversial, this website
maintains statistics on the provenance of masjid sites.
Data Accuracy:Full (A): Reasonably recent first hand knowledge of the masjid.
Some of our address lists date back to the late 1970s and for some of those, even the street no longer exists! So we have started to include a Confidence indicator. This is rated
A to
F, with roughly the following meanings.
- A: Reasonably recent first hand knowledge of the masjid. (A place that is now defunct is 'A' if we've seen for ourselves it no longer exists.)
- B: Well known masjid with plenty of corroborating information to support our data.
- C: Masjid with a single reliable source of information to support our data.
- D: Several sources of information about the masjid, but none of them recent and reliable.
- E: Very limited information about the masjid, from an old or unreliable source.
- F: This place probably does not exist any longer. Or, "We've heard a rumour that there is a masjid around here somewhere."
Source(s): Personal visit in 2008
Last Updated: 01/12/2008
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Note that much of this information comes from publicly available sources including various directories (including ones whose
data is supplied by the public on-line and not checked) and local authority published information about local minority-group facilities.
The contributors have taken a lot of trouble to correct as much data as possible -
you may have corrections for us, but you may find that our data is more accurate!
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