Mosques in Bury, Lancs

Today Friday 13 March 2026, myself and a number of other Christians locally are devoting to prayer for our Muslim neighbours. I hope to attend "iftar" tonight - the daily breaking of the fast, a community meal at the mosque.

As far as I know, there are currently five mosques operating in Bury, Lancs, where I live.

These are:

1. Khizra mosque, Walmersley Road (begun in the 1960s)

2. Jamia Khizra mosque near Asda

3. Qadria Jillania mosque on Church Street (near what used to be St Paul's church)

4. Noor ul Islam mosque on Yarwood Street

5. The Shia Community (Al Mahdi Foundation) on Hornby Street - the Shia Muslims are a different branch of Islam to the majority "Sunni" Muslims.

The main weekly service of prayer at the Mosque is Friday lunchtime, and in Bury this is attended by hundreds of men and boys - at the biggest mosque there might be as many as a thousand in attendance. Women have a parallel meeting in another room. I have observed this in-person on at least two occasions - at the Shia mosque and at the Sunni mosque.

At the present time, all Muslims are observing the month of Ramadan (17 February to 19 March 2026), fasting between dawn and sundown, and then breaking the fast with "iftar" - either in their homes, or as a community meal at the mosque.

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