Al Zahra Shia Association of Waterloo Region

Janazah & burial services

Shia Ithna-Ashari centre serving the Waterloo Region, a membership-based registered charity, at 204 Madison Ave S, Kitchener (it also appears at 300 Mill St in mapping data - confirm which site is current). It runs community, youth, children's and Muharram programs and posts obituary announcements. JANAZAH DOWNGRADED ON RE-CHECK: the site's Services menu lists 'Funeral' and 'Burial' pages, but both pages were empty stubs with no content, no procedure and no contact number on the research date - so every janazah field is left unconfirmed rather than inferred from the menu labels. The centre publishes NO phone number at all, only email. A Shia family in Waterloo Region needing janazah should call the Islamic Centre of Cambridge (519-740-6855, or 519-716-6855 after hours), which is the region's licensed funeral provider, while confirming Shia-specific rites with Al Zahra by email.

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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