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| Saturday, 22 March 2008 | |
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COVENTRY Coventry is an industrial city located in the West Midlands region of England, UK. Famous automobile etc companies such as Jaguar, Rover, Peugeot, Rolls iRoyce and many supply outfits allied to the industry has existed in the city over g a long period of time. Also, the electronics! communications company, Marconi, formerly known as GEC, has existed in Coventry for a great length of time. There also, exist two universally famous universities, namely, the Coventry
The original migration of muslims to Coventry occurred around after the second world war. Majority of these muslims were from the Indian sub continent, ie India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, a sizable muslim migration occurred in late sixties / early seventies from the politically and economically unstable east African countries. This migration consisted of muslims of various nationalities. Also, like other UK cities, Coventry has recently housed number of muslim brothers and sisters who migrated to UK as asylum seekers. There also exists a note worthy amount of international muslim student population in Coventry. The overall population of muslims residing in Coventry is in the region of 35 000. It is now necessary to hold two Friday prayers and in order to is if accommodate all the attendees at ldd prayers it is necessary to hold up to three Idd prayers. The increase in population has also placed an unsustainable demand on the existing educational facilities. For example, presently Islamic education is provided to some 200 children of age between 5 years to 13 years with many on waiting list. Also, there is no facility to provide education to children above 13 years of age or to run adult classes for male and female. The society, having thoroughly considered the above situation, came to the conclusion of constructing a new teaching block adjacent to the existing mosque, as indicated on the drawings placed under project drawing section. The new teaching block has been designed in a way that it will satisfy the demand of the additional prayer attendees with the proposed two storey halls situated T beside the mosque. The most essentially required teaching facilities will be satisfied by the provision of proposed class room block next to the proposed two storey halls as shown on the plans. The new teaching block will be very helpful in satisfying the existing demands as well as expanding the teaching facilities to the children above the age of 13 years and to the adults also. It will also provide educational facilities for the sisters, which the organisation is lacking presently. |
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