Prayer times at Al Zahra Shia Association of Waterloo Region
Worked out from this masjid’s coordinates for today’s date. They are not Al Zahra Shia Association of Waterloo Region’s announced jamaa‘ah times — those are set by the masjid and usually differ. Check alzahra.ca for the jamaa‘ah timetable.
Today
| Prayer | Begins |
|---|---|
| FajrNextDawn — ends at sunrise | — |
| SunriseNextFajr ends; no prayer at this moment | — |
| DhuhrNextJust after the sun crosses the meridian | — |
| AsrNextSet by the shadow ratio you choose below | — |
| MaghribNextAt sunset | — |
| IshaNextNightfall | — |
These are calculated times, not Al Zahra Shia Association of Waterloo Region’s jamaa‘ah times. They are worked out in your browser from this masjid’s own coordinates and today’s date, using the ISNA convention — the same arithmetic a printed timetable uses. What a masjid announces is something else: iqamah is set by the masjid, usually a chosen number of minutes after the prayer begins, and many hold it at a fixed clock time for weeks at a stretch. So the two will not match, and they are not meant to. For the times the congregation actually prays, check the masjid’s own site.
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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Where to go next
Sources for this listing
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position.
- Al Zahra Shia Association - Home — alzahra.ca
- Al Zahra - Services (lists Burial and Funeral) — alzahra.ca
- Al Zahra - Contact — alzahra.ca