Dawoodi Bohra Community — Birmingham, UK

Birmingham hosts one of the United Kingdom's significant Dawoodi Bohra communities, second only to London in size among British Bohra jamats. The Birmingham Bohra community emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, when South Asian professionals and skilled workers came to the UK's industrial heartland during the post-war economic boom. Bohras settled in the Sparkhill, Moseley, and Edgbaston neighbourhoods, attracted by manufacturing and trade opportunities. The community established its own masjid and maktab, conducting Jumu'ah, Ashara Mubaraka, and Ramadan programs in the heart of England's second city. Birmingham Bohras are concentrated in professional fields including medicine, engineering, and retail. The third generation of Birmingham Bohras are British citizens who balance Bohra religious identity with full participation in British civic life — graduating from Birmingham, Aston, and Warwick universities while maintaining the misaq, wearing the rida, and gathering for Ashara waaz. The jamat has received several Dai visits over the decades, marking the community's firm place within the global Dawat.