Places of worship in Ireland are struggling to keep up with the growing diversity of religious communities. Many new faith groups, particularly Muslims, face challenges in finding adequate and affordable spaces for worship. Existing places often lack capacity or are forced to multiply services due to space constraints. This situation highlights the need for greater consideration of religious needs in national planning frameworks.
Rite and Reason: No reference in National Planning Framework to providing space for worship as part of creating spaces that build and sustain communities
Other mosques in the area face the same problem of inadequate space, which means that they are forced to multiply weekly services when the norm is for the entire community to gather at the same time Masjid Rahma now occupies a former garage which can hold only 70 worshippers. This means that the majority of its community is no longer catered for. Most of its members live in the immediate area. They send their children to the same local schools and they share the same workplaces as their Irish-born neighbours.
Indeed, they will be doing what so many Irish people have done over the past two centuries. Wherever they went around the world, they drew strength and support from their Catholic faith. This is typical of all migrants from any part of the world and, as they find their way in a new country, these new arrivals will look to religious faith for support.
For anyone who is part of a faith community, congregational worship is as fundamental to their wellbeing as a school or a hospital
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