Swansea is home to a thriving, mutlicultural city that enables people from many ethnicities, religions and creed to live together in harmony. The bustling welsh hotspot is beautifully located in the beautiful Swansea Valley between the sea and the tumbling countryside. Many people are unaware that Wales has a long, well established relationship with Islam for over a century.
Swansea is home to a thriving, mutlicultural city that enables people from many ethnicities, religions and creed to live together in harmony. The bustling welsh hotspot is beautifully located in the beautiful Swansea Valley between the sea and the tumbling countryside. Many people are unaware that Wales has a long, well established relationship with Islam for over a century.
The first large group of Muslims in Britain arrived about 300 years ago. They were sailors recruited in India to work for the East India Company, and so it's not surprising that the first Muslim communities were found in port towns. Muslim communities also consisted of Yemeni sailors who arrived in ports such as Swansea, Liverpool and South Shields shortly after 1900. Mosques also appeared in British seaports at this time; the first mosque in Britain is recorded as having been the South Wales Islamic Centre at 2 Glyn Rhondda Street, Butetown, Cardiff in 1860. Ships' cooks were an essential part of the crew and many of them hailed from Sylhet, Bangladesh. There are records of Bangladeshis working in London restaurants as early as 1873. Later some of them migrated to inland cities like Birmingham and Sheffield.
After the WWII, Britain neede to replenish its shrivelled labour pool and began to invite citizens from the corners of its dwindling empire. From the 1950s, with large immigration to Britain from the former colonies of Britain, especially the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, large Muslim populations developed in many British towns and cities. Today, The vast majority of Indian restaurants are owned and run by British citizens with a Bangladeshi heritage. The Indian restaurant industry serves 2.5 million customers per week, employs over 70,000 workers and is worth around £3.2 billion to the British economy whilst propelling the British curry as the UK's national cuisine.
Swansea saw its first official mosque established in 1971 to accommodate the growing needs of the increasing local Muslim population. Today, Swansea has four mosques but these find themselves at bursting points as the native population of Muslims have out stripped the institutions' capacities. As more and more people discover the beauty of true Islam, the relocation to larger institutions becomes imperative.
Swansea is home to a thriving, mutlicultural city that enables people from many ethnicities, religions and creed to live together in harmony. The bustling welsh hotspot is beautifully located in the beautiful Swansea Valley between the sea and the tumbling countryside. Many people are unaware that Wales has a long, well established relationship with Islam for over a century.The first large group of Muslims in Britain arrived about 300 years ago. They were sailors recruited in India to work for the East India Company, and so it's not surprising that the first Muslim communities were found in port towns. Muslim communities also consisted of Yemeni sailors who arrived in ports such as Swansea, Liverpool and South Shields shortly after 1900. Mosques also appeared in British seaports at this time; the first mosque in Britain is recorded as having been the South Wales Islamic Centre at 2 Glyn Rhondda Street, Butetown, Cardiff in 1860. Ships' cooks were an essential part of the crew and many of them hailed from Sylhet, Bangladesh. There are records of Bangladeshis working in London restaurants as early as 1873. Later some of them migrated to inland cities like Birmingham and Sheffield.
After the WWII, Britain neede to replenish its shrivelled labour pool and began to invite citizens from the corners of its dwindling empire. From the 1950s, with large immigration to Britain from the former colonies of Britain, especially the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, large Muslim populations developed in many British towns and cities. Today, The vast majority of Indian restaurants are owned and run by British citizens with a Bangladeshi heritage. The Indian restaurant industry serves 2.5 million customers per week, employs over 70,000 workers and is worth around £3.2 billion to the British economy whilst propelling the British curry as the UK's national cuisine.
Swansea saw its first official mosque established in 1971 to accommodate the growing needs of the increasing local Muslim population. Today, Swansea has four mosques but these find themselves at bursting points as the native population of Muslims have out stripped the institutions' capacities. As more and more people discover the beauty of true Islam, the relocation to larger institutions becomes imperative.
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Sections of this article extracted from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom
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