Easton's Jamia Masjid alongside more than 250 Mosques across the UK, will be taking part in this year’s National Visit My Mosque (VMM) Day. The largest mosque open day event in the UK that has grown since its 2015 inception when there were only 20 mosques taking part.
Easton Jamia Mosque has regular open days which they use as an opportunity to dispel some of the common misconceptions about Islam. A YouGov Poll commissioned by the Muslim Council of Britain in 2018 found that almost 70 per cent of Britons hadn’t seen the inside of another faith’s place of worship, and almost 90 per cent hadn’t been inside a mosque.
The Visit My Mosque initiative is a step towards changing that and with it, perceptions around Islam and Muslims. Abdul Malik, the chair of Easton Jamia Mosque, said that the open days give people the chance to ask anything they like.
