Location(s)

Glasgow Seamen's Club
27 Oxford Street
Gorbals
Glasgow
G5 9EP
Scotland

About

In 1933 Atta Muhammed Ashrif founded Glasgow’s first Muslim association, Jamiat al Muslimin, with the aim to fundraise for the city’s first mosque. In 1944 the organization opened a mosque at a tenement building in 27 Oxford Street. The first floor functioned as a mosque while the downstairs was rented out as a seamen’s club.

Muhammed Ali Azam, Haji Muhammad Kaka, Jamadad Khan, Fakir Khan, Latif Khan, Sajawal Khan, Ghulam Muhammed Sharif.

Colourful Heritage, ‘Timeline’, https://www.colourfulheritage.com/ch-timeline/page/3/

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

‘Pakistani People in Scotland’, Reference Number: 3217, Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland, https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3217

Banner image credit

Inside the Ayahs’ Home, Living London, 1904, Shelfmark: 10349.h.12, Courtesy of British Library Board

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Image credit

© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present

Citation: ‘Glasgow Seamen's Club’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain.org/organizations/glasgow-seamens-club/. Accessed: 30 August 2025.

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