Who we are
The Fatima Zahra Imamia Centre is a Twelver Shia (Isna Ashari) community centre in North Ipswich, and a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. It was founded in 2008 by Shia believers from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it began in Logan, Brisbane, rather than here. North Ipswich is where the Centre is now.
People look for the Centre under several names, and all of them fit. It is a mosque — a masjid — where Jumu’ah is prayed when a khateeb is available, and the prayer times for every day are published on this site. It is a hussainia, where the majalis of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) are held. The hall itself is Qasr-e-Zahra (s.a), which is the name on the Centre’s posters. And it is a community centre, because a good deal of what happens here — marriages, funerals, the madrasah, welfare — is not prayer at all.
The families who come here are Indian, Pakistani, Irani, Hazara, Iraqi and Afghan, and they follow different maraji. There is no one marja for this hall: each family follows its own, and the Centre does not rank them. That is why, where communities keep a date differently, this site shows each position rather than presenting one as the only correct one.
What happens here
- Friday prayer
- Jumu’ah when a khateeb is available and enough people can attend. Announced on the home page.
- Majalis
- Nightly through Muharram and Safar, and on the anniversaries of the Ahl al-Bayt (a).
- Marriages
- Nikah arranged through the Centre’s alim.
- Funerals and burial
- The Centre can help with ghusl, kafan, janaza and burial. The first step is to ring.
- The hall
- Available to the community for milad, dinners and family occasions.
Registered charity
The Centre is registered with the ACNC under ABN 66 129 175 686. It is run by a volunteer committee and funded entirely by the community it serves.
Donations to the Centre are not tax deductible. In Australia, advancing religion is not a deductible gift recipient category.