MOSQUES across the district opened their doors today as part of a nationwide event.

The initiative was organised by the Muslim Council of Britain, and nationally saw over 200 mosques take part.

The aim is to foster better community relations and community cohesion, and today hundreds of people from a wide variety of different faiths visited mosques across the Bradford district.

They included Bishop of Bradford the Rt Rev Toby Howarth, who visited Madni Masjid in West Bowling.

During the day visitors got to learn about how Muslims pray, and the importance of the mosques to the faith.

A recent poll commissioned by the MCB 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.

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Rifaqat Ali from the Madni Masjid said: “We gave them visitors a tour of the centre and the mosque and the Imam explained the role of the mosque and its different facilities, some things we take for granted but that other people might not know much about.”