Mushrooming mosques

Oxford’s Arab Muslims are trying to open a fourth mosque in the city… A super mosque for up to 2,500 worshippers could be up and running in Hyndburn within 3 years… An extension at the Jamia Alavia Islamic Centre in the Haulgh approved, despite concerns from residents… Conversion of a pub into a mosque, carried out without planning permission, has been given the green light… A planned £7m landmark mosque for South Wales will not be stopped by the recession… The new Mevlana Rumi Mosque and Dialogue Centre in Edmonton formally opened… Community leader insists mosque will be completed – despite the credit crunch… Leicester Council sells a vacant plot of land in Conduit Street to the mosque…

Designs for Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque are set to be unveiled next month… Plans to build a mosque in West Bridgford could be moving a step closer… A Muslim organisation wants to build an education centre at a former factory site in a Derbyshire village… A 125-year lease was signed giving the final go-ahead to build a £4 million mosque in East Reading… Nottingham’s 17th Mosque given go-ahead… Councillors stick with plans to site large mosque in Accrington following a heated debate… Plans to build a £1.5 million mosque in the Black Country, complete with a minaret on the roof, approved… Construction of a five-storey building which will be one of London’s biggest mosques approved… A new Islamic Centre for High Wycombe got its grand opening to the public over the weekend… Plans to turn a disused church into a mosque unanimously approved by Newport city council… A mosque will be built on the site of a former church in Lincoln.