Centre Islamique de l'Outaouais (Gatineau Mosque)

Janazah & burial services

French name: Centre Islamique de l'Outaouais (CIO); also styled Islamic Centre of the Outaouais (OIC). The main mosque on the Quebec side of the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Runs Quranic courses, imam consultations, marriage services and zakat assistance, and operates two schools, Ecole Al-Fajr and Ecole Shatibi (details not published on the pages read). NO funeral or janazah services are mentioned anywhere on the centre's own site - Gatineau Muslims are served by the Ottawa Muslim Cemetery, which states it covers 'Ottawa and Gatineau and the surrounding areas'. ADDRESS CAUTION: third-party directories (Yellow Pages, Canpages) list this organisation at 355 Rue Notre-Dame, Gatineau with a phone of 819-663-1166; the organisation's own website gives 4 Rue Lois and 819-776-1831, which is what is recorded here. A phone call would resolve whether the Notre-Dame address is a second location or a stale listing.

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.

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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