Islamic Wills in Winnipeg

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada – Winnipeg Mosque

This Winnipeg mosque is a local chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada, whose national body (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada Inc.) is a CRA-registered charity effective 1969. The community's motto, displayed on its national and local pages alike, is "Love for All, Hatred for None."

Manitoba Dawah Centre

The Manitoba Dawah Centre operates at 368 Edmonton Street in downtown Winnipeg, where the Manitoba Islamic Association's provincial listing records that it holds the five daily prayers and Jumu'ah and runs education, da'wah and social service programmes on weekends and evenings for Muslims living downtown. Manitoba Dawah Center Inc. was granted charitable registration by the CRA effective 10 October 2024, with a mailing address at 540 Ellice Avenue. Its former website, mdcinfo.org, no longer resolves.

Listed services: five daily prayers and Jumu'ah, Islamic education programmes, da'wah programmes, social service programmes.

Manitoba Islamic Association (Winnipeg Grand Mosque)

MIA was formally incorporated in November 1969 to serve what was then a community of about 25 predominantly Indo-Pakistani families in Winnipeg; CRA registered MANITOBA ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION INC. (107660367RR0001) effective 1969-11-27 at 2445 Waverley St - the Grand Mosque's own address - in the same month. It built Manitoba's first mosque on Hazelwood Avenue in St Vital, which opened on 25 September 1976 at a cost of nearly $116,000 raised through community dinners, Folklorama, bake sales and an appeal to leaders of Muslim-majority countries; it was renamed Pioneer Mosque at its 40th anniversary in 2016. The MIA states that it 'owns and operates, on behalf of the Muslim community, two mosques and community centres in Winnipeg: Pioneer Mosque, the historical first mosque in Manitoba at 247 Hazelwood Ave, and the Winnipeg Grand Mosque and Community Centre, at 2445 Waverley St', plus satellite musallahs in Winkler and Steinbach.

Listed services: five daily prayers and Friday prayers at both Winnipeg mosques, funeral services (janazah): transport to the MIA funeral facility, ghusl, shroud (kafan) and wooden casket, scheduling with the family, community announcement by email and social media, the funeral prayer at the Grand Mosque on Waverley, transport to the cemetery, an imam to oversee the burial and perform du'a, and a Declaration of Death issued to the next of kin; pre-arrangements accepted, financial assistance (Takaful), marriage services, mental health and wellness services, counselling and 11 more.

Masjid Beit Naballa

The Beit Naballa Mosque opened on Friday 16 February 2024 at 325 Wallasey Street in Winnipeg's St. James neighbourhood, and about 150 people visited on its opening day. It was opened by Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba, together with his parents Wajih (Moe) and Suad Zeid, and is named after Beit Nabala, the Palestinian village where his parents were born in 1948 and from which they were displaced. The mosque states that it is open for the five daily prayers and Jumu'ah and aims to meet social, educational and spiritual needs as well as religious ones; the building also houses offices for the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba.

Listed services: five daily prayers and Jumu'ah, social, educational and spiritual programmes.

Pakistani Association (Ross Avenue prayer hall)

The Pakistani Association's premises at 348 Ross Avenue in Winnipeg are listed by the Manitoba Islamic Association among the prayer halls of Manitoba, holding daily prayers, the Friday Jumu'ah prayer and Tarawih prayers through Ramadan. It is a prayer hall within a community association's building rather than a separately constituted mosque, and no charitable registration was found for it.

Listed services: daily prayers, Jumu'ah prayer, Tarawih prayers during Ramadan.

Pioneer Mosque (St. Vital Mosque)

Pioneer Mosque opened its doors on September 25-26, 1976, as the first mosque in Winnipeg, built by the local Muslim community in the St. Vital neighbourhood at 247 Hazelwood Ave. For decades it was known informally as the "Hazelwood Mosque"; it was renamed Pioneer Mosque in 2016 to honour its founders on the 40th anniversary. It operates under the Manitoba Islamic Association, incorporated in 1969 and Manitoba's oldest and largest Muslim organization (CRA-registered charity effective November 1969).

Rahma Community & Youth Centre

Rahma Community and Youth Centre Inc. describes itself as "a non-profit community organization aimed at helping community members," with programming concentrated on youth education, newcomer settlement support, mentorship, and employability training. It is a CRA-registered charity effective January 2023.

Listed services: youth educational support, settlement support for newcomers, mentorship programs, employability training, mental health and wellness program, seniors and intergenerational support and 1 more.

Salam Masjid

Salam Masjid occupies the former St. Giles Presbyterian Church at the southwest corner of Burrows Avenue and Charles Street, a municipally designated historic site. The dark red brick and Tyndall stone building was designed by Winnipeg architect Charles Saunders Bridgman, its foundation and basement built in 1906 and the Gothic Revival superstructure — with a 75-foot bell tower and a horseshoe gallery seating about 1,100 — completed in 1908. It became St. Giles United Church after church union in 1925, was sold in 1973 to the Elmwood Bethel Mennonite Church and in 1997 to the Bethlehem Aboriginal Fellowship. In 2015 the Baptist Union of Western Canada asked the City of Winnipeg to lift the heritage designation so the building could be demolished; the city did not, and by a 2018 site visit the building was in use as Salam Masjid.

Winnipeg Central Mosque

WCM's own history page is unusually detailed. Before 2004 the only mosque in Winnipeg was in South St Vital, and downtown Muslims prayed Jumaa at the Health Sciences Centre, the University of Winnipeg and the Pakistani Centre on Ross Avenue, 'getting very crowded' with 'often no room for women and children'. Dr. Mujibur Rahman - a local physician, former Manitoba Islamic Association president and trustee and a founder of Al-Hijra Islamic School - proposed a downtown mosque; MIA declined, being 'heavily preoccupied with the Waverley Mosque', so Dr. Rahman, his daughter Dr. Jennifer Rahman, and Mr. Farhad Sultanpour and his wife Glenda Lagadi raised the funds themselves and 'purchased 715 Ellice Avenue and the adjacent parking lots on March 2004 in the name of the newly formed corporation, "Winnipeg Central Mosque Inc."' The building had been the 'Happy Vineyard' and the 'Bamboo Bar and Grill', vacant two years and 'drawing crime to the area'; from March to October 2004 volunteers dismantled two bars, sold the restaurant equipment, and repainted and refloored throughout, praying 'on temporary cardboard' in the meantime. WCM opened in October 2004 in time for Ramadan, with an official open house on 14 November 2004. It has 'no full-time imam' - 'Various respected and educated members of the community lead Jumaa prayers.' CRA registered Winnipeg Central Mosque Inc. under BN 870224508RR0002 effective 2021-11-08, seventeen years after the mosque opened; an earlier account on the same business number (RR0001, dated 2020-02-20) carries no registered status.

Listed services: five daily prayers in congregation and Jumaa prayer, janazah (funeral) prayer at the mosque - washing, shrouding and burial are referred to the Manitoba Islamic Association, Saturday Qur'an reading classes for all ages, religious learning circles, wedding / nikah, Islam 101 sessions and 4 more.