Description:Uxbridge Street, with Central Mosque Rizvia in the foreground. The former board school in Uxbridge Street was converted into a mosque in 1994, and is also partly used as a Pakistani community centre.
The first mosque for the town's Muslim community, which is predominantly Sunni, was opened in 1975 in a converted house in Byrkley Street. It was replaced in 1977 by a mosque in Princess Street, the fifth purpose-built mosque in the country. That was, in turn, replaced in 2000 by the present Jamia Hanfia Ghousia mosque, built on the same site in a traditional style with minaret and dome. Another Islamic community centre was opened in the late 1990s in the former Methodist church in Parker street.
This Image is from a collection of photographs of Burton upon Trent commissioned and assembled by Burton upon Trent Civic Society as a record of the town in the year 2000.
Text and photograph © Burton upon Trent Civic Society