The Al-Rahma Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الرحمة) is a Mosque located on Hatherley Street in Toxteth, Liverpool, England, and can accommodate between 2,000 and 2,500 people and serves as the main place of worship and focus point for Liverpool's 25,000 strong Muslim community. The Al-Rahma Mosque is currently the largest of Liverpool's three mosques, followed by the Penny Lane mosque and a proposed mosque and Muslim centre on the former Anfield Community Comprehensive School site.
The current building is used primarily by the city's sizeable Arab and Somali populations whom constitute the vast majority of Liverpool's 25,000 strong Muslim community., At the mosque there are daily prayers as well as Jumu'ah on Fridays, and the mosque also provides free meals, and its services include a day centre for the elderly, children’s sporting clubs, and weekend Arabic lessons.
Architecture and History
The first ever mosque in England was built in Liverpool; it was opened at 8 Brougham Terrace by a solicitor and Muslim convert William Abdullah Quilliam on 25 December 1889 and the mosque he constructed was maintained until 1908. That mosque has recently been refurbished by the Muslim Enterprise Development Service and is now called the Abdullah Quilliam Society.
The Liverpool Muslim Society was set up in 1953, by the late Al-Haj Ali Hizzam, a member of Liverpool's Muslim Community, when it operated from a room in his house. The society was determined to build a place of worship to meet the spiritual needs of Liverpool's small population of about 3000 Muslims which was ever expanding. The Muslim community had been without a mosque since the mosque William Abdullah Quilliam had constructed was closed in 1908, So In 1965 the construction of the Al-Rahma mosque started, with extensions to accommodate the ever expanding community, with the main prayer hall being completed in July 1974. During the Mosque's construction, on Fridays and Muslim festivals, the Pakistan Centre opposite and the car park was used as a temporary prayer space whilst the building was being completed. The first small floor, the madrassah and the imam’s accommodation was added in 1979.
The current three-storey mosque is much more traditional in appearance with a golden dome and crescent on top, It opened in 2008 during Liverpool's tenure as European Capital of Culture.
The current building is used primarily by the city's sizeable Arab and Somali populations whom constitute the vast majority of Liverpool's 25,000 strong Muslim community., At the mosque there are daily prayers as well as Jumu'ah on Fridays, and the mosque also provides free meals, and its services include a day centre for the elderly, children’s sporting clubs, and weekend Arabic lessons.
Architecture and History
The first ever mosque in England was built in Liverpool; it was opened at 8 Brougham Terrace by a solicitor and Muslim convert William Abdullah Quilliam on 25 December 1889 and the mosque he constructed was maintained until 1908. That mosque has recently been refurbished by the Muslim Enterprise Development Service and is now called the Abdullah Quilliam Society.The Liverpool Muslim Society was set up in 1953, by the late Al-Haj Ali Hizzam, a member of Liverpool's Muslim Community, when it operated from a room in his house. The society was determined to build a place of worship to meet the spiritual needs of Liverpool's small population of about 3000 Muslims which was ever expanding. The Muslim community had been without a mosque since the mosque William Abdullah Quilliam had constructed was closed in 1908, So In 1965 the construction of the Al-Rahma mosque started, with extensions to accommodate the ever expanding community, with the main prayer hall being completed in July 1974. During the Mosque's construction, on Fridays and Muslim festivals, the Pakistan Centre opposite and the car park was used as a temporary prayer space whilst the building was being completed. The first small floor, the madrassah and the imam’s accommodation was added in 1979.
The current three-storey mosque is much more traditional in appearance with a golden dome and crescent on top, It opened in 2008 during Liverpool's tenure as European Capital of Culture.
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