Ottawa Muslim Association (Ottawa Mosque)

Prayer times at Ottawa Muslim Association (Ottawa Mosque)

Worked out from this masjid’s coordinates for today’s date. They are not Ottawa Muslim Association (Ottawa Mosque)’s announced jamaa‘ah times — those are set by the masjid and usually differ. Check ottawamosque.ca for the jamaa‘ah timetable.

Janazah & burial services

Ottawa's oldest mosque (est. 1970s building, association since 1964); licensed by Ontario's Bereavement Authority (BAO Transfer Service License TSR-1555) to transfer and prepare the deceased. The after-hours funeral contact is a named individual's personal line rather than an office number, so confirm it is still current before relying on it.

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

• Ottawa Muslim Cemetery

Facilities & community services

At the masjid

• funeral facility with washing table and cold storage for delayed burials

Services the community can ask for

• funeral services (form completion, transport from home or hospital, taghseel/washing, takfeen, casket, kafan and all supplies, cold storage for delayed burial, janazah prayer, transport to the cemetery)
• licensed Bereavement Authority of Ontario Transfer Service Operator - Class 2 Restricted, licence TSR-1555

Listed from the organisation’s own material. A service not listed here isn’t necessarily unavailable — call the office and ask.

About Ottawa Muslim Association (Ottawa Mosque)

The Ottawa Muslim Association's about page dates the community to the 1940s: 'The story of the Ottawa Mosque starts in the 1940s with the first few Muslim families in Ottawa … the community rented out the basement of Northwestern United Church every Sunday to teach Quran, Islamic studies, and Arabic to the children.' It records that the association 'was founded in 1965', and that 'the Ottawa Mosque, the first in Ottawa and one of the first in Canada, was constructed in 1970' on two houses' worth of land on Northwestern Avenue — chosen partly to stay 'near our longtime friends and neighbors, United Church'. CRA's Charities Listing records THE OTTAWA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION, BN 107806242RR0001, Ottawa ON, as Registered with an effective date of status of 1980-01-01 — fifteen years after the association's own founding date and a decade after the mosque was built. OMA also notes on its funerals page that it and Jami Omar are 'the two (2) Muslim organizations in Ottawa assisting families with funeral services in the Ottawa region'.

From the organisation’s own pages, checked 13 Aug 2026 — see the sources below.

What we haven’t confirmed

We could not establish: Ghusl for women, by women, 24-hour janazah line, the Jumu’ah time. 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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