Two different questions get asked here, and most listings only answer the first. Where is the nearest masjid? And: can I pray where I am already eating? This page answers both, because the second one is the awkward one — you are out with family, maghrib is in twenty minutes, and nobody wants to end the meal early to drive somewhere.
The two that never close
Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Assembly — the Green Dome mosque in the northeast — is open 24 hours, with a large car park and the Green Dome Islamic School on site. Fairview Southeast Mosque, run by the IISC, is the same round the clock in the southeast.
Those two are the answer to fajr before a flight, isha after a late shift, and every hour that a mosque with ordinary opening times cannot cover.
Northeast
Akram Jomaa Islamic Centre on 39 Ave NE is one of Calgary's largest mosques — a separate ladies' prayer hall, a big car park, and the capacity for a full Jumu'ah or Eid jama'ah. It is the one to plan around on a Friday.
Abu Bakr Islamic Centre is a quieter, family-friendly musallah on the first floor of the Franklin Atrium building, and Alfalah (ACIC) is a newer one inside the Action Dignity Society building on 33 St NE. Both are five-daily-prayer spaces rather than event venues, which is exactly what you want mid-errand.
Further out, Al-Hedaya Islamic Centre has served Saddle Ridge, Martindale, Castleridge, Coral Springs, Falconridge and Taradale since 2008, and Dawat-e-Islami Canada in Westwinds runs teaching gatherings alongside the five salah.
Downtown, and the weekday prayer break
The Downtown Calgary Mosque on 7 Ave SW is the one that solves dhuhr on a workday — it is busiest precisely then, which tells you what it is for. Also IISC-run.
Southwest, northwest, southeast
Calgary Islamic Centre SW is one of the oldest mosques in the city, a spacious green-domed masjid with ample parking, and still a central gathering point. The Islamic Association of NW Calgary in Ranchlands runs Quran classes and Ramadan programmes for children alongside Friday prayers.
In the southeast, Abu Huraira Musalla is a small, clean, no-frills room run by the Al Azhar Youth Center — useful to know if you are eating your way along the 17 Ave SE halal strip.
Shia congregations
Calgary Imambargah, the Hussaini Association, has been going since 1986 and is one of the oldest Shia institutions in the city. Bab-ul-Hawaij Islamic Centre in the northeast was established in 2014 and has separate prayer spaces for men and women.
Eleven places you can eat AND pray
This is the part no other listing has, and the reason this site tracks it as its own filter. These are ordinary businesses — restaurants, a grocer, a burger shop — that keep a prayer space on site.
- D Spot Dessert Cafe on 17 Ave SW, which is also open 24 hours. Dessert at 1am and a place to pray, in the same room.
- Chatkhara in Castleridge, and Karahi Boys on Falsbridge Dr NE — both full South Asian sit-down meals.
- Haveli Sweets & Restaurant on Falshire Dr NE, for mithai and a meal.
- Chicken On The Way in Temple, and Flipp'n Burgers on 10 St NW.
- Canadian Pizza Unlimited on 52 Ave NW — unlimited toppings and a prayer room is a genuinely odd pairing, and a useful one.
- Calgary Shawarma on Edmonton Trail NE.
- Ishtar Hookah Bar on Macleod Trail SW.
- Two grocers, for when the shop is the errand: Zak's Mart on Macleod Trail S and Calgary Produce Market in Westwinds.
Before you drive
Every one of these is community-confirmed rather than certified by anybody, and a prayer space inside a business is exactly the kind of thing that changes without announcement — a room gets used for storage, a lease changes hands. It is worth a phone call if you are making the trip specifically for it, and the number is on every listing.
If you find one we have missed, or one that is no longer there, tell us. This list is only as good as what people send in, and it is the part of the site that most needs local eyes.
Find them on the map
Filter the map to places of worship for the mosques, or to prayer space for the restaurants and shops that keep one — then sort by distance to get the nearest.
