The Cardiff Muslim Cultural Centre (CMCC) on Alice Street is the spiritual and social heart of south Wales' Muslim community. In 2024 and 2025, CMCC scaled programmes that reflect both Islamic obligation and Welsh civic identity: community kitchens, Welsh-Arabic welcome packs for refugees, and RE support for schools across Cardiff and the Valleys.
Community kitchen and Ramadan 2025
CMCC's community kitchen serves hot lunches twice weekly year-round. Volunteers cook batch meals — curry, rice, roasted vegetables — for anyone who walks in. During Ramadan 2025, the kitchen extended to pre-iftar preparation for the mosque's open iftar nights, which drew 250–300 guests per evening in the final week. Welsh Government community grants in 2024 helped upgrade the kitchen to commercial standards.
Welsh welcome and schools
A distinctive CMCC initiative in 2024–2025 was bilingual welcome literature: essential mosque etiquette and local services information printed in Welsh and Arabic for Yemeni and Syrian families settling in Cardiff. The education team hosted 45 school visits in 2024, including several from Welsh-medium primaries where pupils learned about Islam through Welsh-language presentations.
- Grangetown youth club: coding and sports nights for ages 11–18
- Cardiff Bay open iftars: partnership with Wales Millennium Centre staff
- Health screening days: NHS nurses offering blood pressure and diabetes checks
- Eid in the Park: 2024 event attracted 4,000 families to Bute Park
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Cardiff's Muslim community is smaller than Birmingham or London but tightly woven into the city's multicultural fabric. CMCC's 2024–2025 programmes show a mosque serving as community centre, classroom, and kitchen — with a Welsh accent.