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ACCESSIBILITY
 - Parking available
 - Handicapped access
 - Public transit
FACILITIES & SERVICES
 - Restrooms on site
 - Kitchen/food service
 - Friday services
WOMEN'S ACCOMODATIONS
 - No barrier in main hall
 - Barrier in main hall
 - Separate prayer area
 - No women's accomodation
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Denomination: Sunni (Traditional)
Demographics: Predominantly South Asian
Prayers offered: Unknown
Language of Friday khutbah: English
Imam: Unknown
Director/President: Unknown
Type of governance: Unknown
Women in leadership: Unknown
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 Madinah masjid is the de facto headquarters of the all-powerful, universal and ubiqtuous Jamat-e-Tableegh. If you are not a regular to the masjid, you will immediately become aware that you are being watched and observed silently. I assume as a potential recruit for the jamat. Or am I being neurotic here! That aside, the men's area is very spacious and well-organized with good wudu facilities. A very open large sunny main hall to pray in. Surrounded by many Islamic shops and Muslims everywhere in sight in the neighborhood.
Submitted on 2006-06-17 by zabiha | |
 This is not the "most well known" in Toronto. This is a Tabliqi-Jammat mosque, and NOT filled with Pakistanis, but rather with Gujrati/Tabliqi muslims. It is in their tradition to only have the men attend the prayers, while the women observe 'pardah', therefore the accomodations for any women who'd dare to show up, would of course be not acceptable to others standards. I remember growing up in Toronto, back when there were only the Jami Mosque (downtown - the old church) and this Madina Mosque...and people were grouped by which masjid they went to. Only the Tabliqis went here, while the rest of the muslim community went to the Jami Mosque.
Submitted on 2005-10-10 by UmmIsra | |
I have an emotional to Madina Masjid. I remember the days when I was a new Muslim and used to pray there on Saturday nights. This mosque has an interesting dynamic. The members of the board of directors are not great fans of the tabligi jamat movement, yet the mosque is a major tabligi centre. I figure they tolerate the tabligi brothers because of the large numbers of people that attend the Saturday ijtima (gatherings) and the possible financial consequences of not allowing allowing tabligi brothers to have their programmes. The mosque, in it's present state, is a rather humble building and rather plain both inside and out. The mosque was originally established by the local Gujrati community, but has gradually become more multicultural over the last 10 or so years. As well, women have been given a place to pray in the basement - not a very nice place by many accounts (near the funeral facilities), but alot better than 10 years ago when the 'ladies section'was small broom closet. Overall my opinion of this mosque is rather good. I would prefer that the board of directors was more multicultural. One the negative side, this mosque, as well as many others, have a tendancy to spend donation money on rather unnecessary AND COSTLY additions to the building. How spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on domes and minarets makes the lives of Muslims in Canada and abroad better is beyond me. More fiscal responsibility would be nice to see.
Submitted on 2005-10-10 by bilal786 | |
 This mosque is one of the most well-known in Toronto. It's easily accessible from the subway. It is a strongly Pakistani mosque. The women pray in the basement. The space is accessible from a back door. The women's entrance was not obvious - I had to ask a little girl. I have no idea what the men's space looks like. There is no shelving for women's shoes so they end up clogging the stairs. I had the misfortune of needing to do wudu there before prayer. The women's bathrooms (also in the basement) were atrocious, small and dirty. Toilet is really the word to use for them. The sisters who attend jumua are almost all South Asian and it seems mostly Pakistani. It seemed as if most of the sisters did not speak English and as a non-South Asian I was not welcomed - not even a salaam from anyone. I felt very excluded simply because I was not of their ethnicity. As the space is in the basement there is no chance of seeing the imam or khateeb or of hearing them directly and the space is dingy - like what it is, a basement room. The khutba was less than inspired and didn't address any of the issues that Muslims are actually dealing with - was just very traditional about some point of fiqh. I would not go here again unless I found myself in the area at prayer time and had nowhere else to go. The brothers' experience might be very different.
Submitted on 2005-06-14 by ruhafsa | |
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