Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mosques are registered with the General Registry Office to perform civil marriages and partnerships.
No mosques are registered with the General Register Office for England and
Wales for civil marriages or civil partnership.
The governing body of a mosque or other building where the Muslim faith is
practised may apply to have that building certified as a place of religious
worship under the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855. Following this, the
building can then be registered for the solemnization of marriages under the
Marriage Act 1949.
There are 258 such buildings registered.