Leeds Grand Mosque (LGM) is a

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Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popul ...

with a regular congregation of 1,200.''The Times'', 24 August 2002
"At your service" by Daniel Crewe It is located at 9 Woodsley Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1SN

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. The mosque has a diverse and ethnically mixed congregation with facilities for both male and female worshippers. The Friday prayer sermon is also delivered in English also alongside the Arabic. The mosque's Imam is Sheikh Dr Mohammed Taher. The resident Islamic scholar to the mosque is Sheikh Abdullah Al Judai’. It is the home of the first Muslim

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Group in Leeds.www.cycscouts.org.uk
1st Muslim Scout Group Launches 15 Scouts were invested at the launch in 2006.Yorkshire Evening Post
5 December 2006 "City gets its first Muslim Scouts"

Building

It was originally Sacred Heart Church designed by Derek Walker, completed in 1965 and described as "One of the most striking churches to be built in the 1960s".John Minnis & Trevor Mitchell (2007) ''Religion and Place in Leeds'' (English Heritage) The design is

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based on a concrete frame clad with pre-cast panels of Cornish granite aggregate. It closed in 1993 and was sold and converted in 1994, with funding from Saif Bin Muhammad Al-Nehayyan of

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.History of Leeds Grand Mosque
The chancel was converted into a smaller worship hall used on weekdays, and a women's gallery was constructed at the rear of the main hall, later augmented by converting the choir gallery into a second women's gallery. The stained glass window and Christian symbols were removed, and facilities for

wudu Wuḍūʾ ( ar, الوضوء ' ) is the Islamic procedure for cleansing parts of the body, a type of ritual purification, or ablution. The 4 Fardh (Mandatory) acts of ''Wudu'' consists of washing the face, arms, then wiping the head and the fe ...

installed. The main hall provides a large open space which is used as the main prayer area for men. In 2013 a storm lifted part of the roof off, resulting in extensive rain damage.Yorkshire Evening Post 7 December 2013
"SOS call at Leeds mosque left exposed by freak storm"

Facilities

Leeds Grand Mosque interior edited Feb 2018

*Male prayer hall *Female prayer hall *Lecture room *Basement – used for multiple activities *Library *Catering kitchen *Management office, storage rooms, and washing facilities for both males and females *Fenced car park for 20 cars *Gardens around the mosque *Linked house, rented as a source of income

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* {{Mosques in the United Kingdom 1994 establishments in England Mosques completed in 1994 Mosques converted from churches in Europe Mosques in England Religious buildings and structures in Leeds

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