Westshore Islamic Centre (BC Muslim Association - Westshore Branch)

Janazah & burial services

IMPORTANT CAVEAT - low confidence, include with care: BCMA's own page describes this as 'a new Westshore, Victoria chapter of the BC Muslim Association... a small growing Muslim community' whose stated goal is 'to build our own mosque' - i.e. it does not yet own a purpose-built masjid. Its site nonetheless advertises a 'Weekend School/Madrasa' and runs fundraising under the name 'Westshore Musallah,' implying an active but informal/rented prayer space exists at the listed address. The address (2219 Sooke Rd) is in the Western Communities (Colwood/Langford area), a separate municipality from the City of Victoria proper, even though BCMA's own copy calls it a 'Victoria chapter' - filed under city=Victoria here to match BCMA's own framing and because it falls within the Victoria assignment for this batch, but a directory maintainer may want to relabel it Colwood/Langford/Westshore. No phone number is published on the branch's own contact page (only a fax, 604-244-9750, and email westshore@thebcma.com). No postal code found. Given the lack of a confirmed permanent building and phone, this entity may need a call to westshore@thebcma.com to confirm current status before publishing to a bereaved family. JANAZAH CAUTION: unlike the Masjid Al-Iman (Victoria) entry in this same file, do NOT direct a Westshore-connected family to 250-995-1422 - that is the Victoria branch's own number, not Westshore's, and this branch publishes no phone number of its own (only westshore@thebcma.com and a fax). This branch is also not listed with its own contact on BCMA's central Funeral Services page. The 604-727-8001 central hotline is BCMA's Lower Mainland line (Westshore is on Vancouver Island, not the Lower Mainland) and is shown here only because it is the one number this branch's own page actually publishes - it should be treated as a starting point pending direct confirmation, not a guaranteed correct local route. Westshore is a short drive from the established Victoria branch (Masjid Al-Iman, 250-995-1422), which has its own burial-prep facilities and decades of local burial experience, but this directory has no source stating Westshore formally refers janazah calls there, so that is offered as context only, not as a verified instruction. The Sooke Rd address is in the Westshore - Colwood/Langford - which is Greater Victoria rather than the City of Victoria proper; it is filed under Victoria so that searchers find it, but the municipality differs. JANAZAH CAUTION - the 604-727-8001 number is BCMA's central funeral hotline, which BCMA describes as serving the Muslim community in the LOWER MAINLAND. Westshore is on Vancouver Island, so a family here should contact Masjid Al-Iman in Victoria (250-995-1422), which runs the island's burial service and has its own burial prep room, before relying on the 604 hotline.

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