The thieves broke into Masjid-e-Rizwan in Blackburn, Lancashire, through an attic window over the weekend. Mosque president Dr Siraj Parker said the heavy safe was dragged out of the building and ...

Plans have been submitted to knock down an existing Blackburn mosque and build a modern new one in its place. The proposal has been put forward by the Jamia Syeda Fatima Al-zahra in Bank Lane.

Plans by the billionaire Issa brothers to build a "landmark" mosque in Blackburn have been approved. The £5m scheme by the siblings, who recently bought supermarket giant Asda, had faced ...