Al Rashid Mosque (Canadian Islamic Centre)

Janazah & burial services

Founded 1938, Al Rashid is the oldest mosque in Canada and the anchor of the Al Rashid Foundation of Canada. Funerals for the whole city run through here: the Islamic Funeral Society (IFS), established 1992, 'comprises all the Mosques in Edmonton who elect an executive board' and 'delegated the Canadian Islamic Centre (Al Rashid Mosque) to take care of all funeral services'. IFS is a not-for-profit — 'no one individual or entity profits from the operation of the society'. Specific ghusl / kafan / cold-storage / transport details are not stated on the site, so those fields are left unconfirmed rather than assumed. The mosque campus also hosts the Imam Al Shatibi Quran Institute, Edmonton Islamic Academy, Edmonton Islamic Daycare & Pre-school and the ARCA banquet facility.

Each line below is either confirmed from the organisation’s own material or marked as not confirmed. We publish the gaps rather than guess at them.

Cemeteries this masjid uses

• Edmonton Muslim Cemetery

School at this masjid

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What we haven’t confirmed

We could not establish: On-site mortuary, Cold storage, Ghusl facility, Ghusl for women, by women, Kafan (shroud), Transport of the deceased and more. Those are published as gaps rather than filled with a plausible guess. If you know the answer — especially if you are from this organisation — tell us and we will verify and update the listing.

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