Madrassa Zia-Ul Quran
Charity 518022
Overview
Summary
Madrassa Zia-Ul Quran appears to be a locally rooted Sunni-Barelwi religious institution whose role extends beyond worship into faith-based education and potential support during hardship. Its operating model seems centred on providing a physical community space: a mosque and teaching institute serving people connected to the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, while retaining a wider stated remit. The available evidence suggests a culturally specific institution that may function as both a religious anchor and an accessible point of support for its community.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Alum Rock
Confidence: high
The organisation's current website identifies its mosque, madrassa and community centre in Alum Rock. The website describes active worship, religious education, counselling and weekday madrassa provision from this facility.
- Madrassa Zia Ul Quran annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024, Charity Commission
Lists the charity's principal address and describes its purpose as providing a place of worship and religious teaching and education for the local Muslim community. - Zia ul Quran Jamia Masjid & Community Centre website
Identifies the organisation's contact location in Alum Rock and describes the site as a community hub providing worship, madrassa education, counselling, youth activities and funeral-related support. - Zia ul Quran Jamia Masjid & Community Centre website
States that weekday evening madrassa classes serve children and that the madrassa aims to provide Islamic education to students in the Birmingham east area.
Remaining uncertainties
- The supplied charity-register address conflicts with address information in the 2024 annual report and the active mosque website. The available evidence supports current operational activity in Alum Rock; it does not establish the present role of the separately listed address.
- The organisation describes itself as serving the east Birmingham and wider Birmingham Muslim community, but there is no evidence of recurring delivery sites, branches or programmed services in other specified Birmingham wards.
- The website refers generally to collaboration with faith and non-faith organisations but identifies no named current partners or partnership-delivered activity that would evidence an extended operational geography.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable or annual report describing where off-site activities, outreach, youth provision or funeral support are delivered.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether the separately listed address remains a correspondence, trustee or operational address.
- Named partner information and evidence of any jointly delivered services outside the Alum Rock site.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A faith institution with an educational core
The organisation appears to treat religious teaching as a central function rather than an additional activity. Its mosque role and madrassa identity suggest that worship, learning and religious continuity may be closely integrated.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a mosque focused primarily on congregational worship. It may be an important site where religious knowledge, community identity and intergenerational participation are sustained together.
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“Mosque and Religious Teaching Institute”
Source:Organisation“The advancement of education (including instruction in the Sunni Brelway Muslim faith).”
Source:Charity Commission
A place-based institution with a wider potential reach
The charity appears primarily oriented toward the Sunni-Barelwi Muslim community in Alum Rock, but its objects allow it to support people elsewhere. This may indicate a strong neighbourhood base alongside connections that extend beyond it.
Why it matters
Understanding this dual orientation is useful when considering local partnerships: the organisation may hold deep local relationships while also serving or connecting with a broader faith network.
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“For the benefit of persons of the Sunni-Brelway Muslim faith resident in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham and elsewhere.”
Source:Charity Commission“People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin”
Source:Charity Commission
Physical space may be its principal civic asset
The organisation appears to deliver much of its value through maintaining accessible premises for worship and teaching. The building may therefore be as important to its operating model as its formal programmes.
Why it matters
This points to a possible wider civic role: trusted community space can enable informal support, gatherings and relationships that are not visible in activity labels alone.
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“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space”
Source:Charity Commission“Mosque and Religious Teaching Institute”
Source:Organisation
- There is no evidence about the scale, frequency or format of teaching and worship activities.
- It is unclear whether hardship relief is delivered directly, through referrals or only as a charitable power.
- No evidence identifies partnerships, volunteer capacity, leadership structure or use of the building by other groups.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on programmes, attendance, age groups served and languages used.
- Evidence of hardship-relief activity, referral relationships and partnerships with local organisations.
- Details of how the premises are used outside formal worship and religious teaching.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Mosque and Religious Teaching Institute
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE MOSQUE SHALL BE TO PROMOTE ANDY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OF THE SUNNI-BRELWAY MUSLIM FAITH RESIDENT IN THE ALUM ROCK AREA OF BIRMINGHAM AND ELSEWHERE AND IN PARTICULAR: I THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SUNNI-BRELWAY MUSLIM FAITH II THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING INSTRUCTION IN THE SUNNI BRELWAY MUSLIM FAITH); III THE RELIEF OF HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.