I removed them because I understood tagging as a property of the main way was the preferred standard in this part of the world (there was mention of Uber adding sidewalks unhelpfully in London recently).

From your handle I assume you're active in Ipswich and I'm happy to defer to you if there is preferred local practice. I would have thought consistency across the UK may be better, but I'm no sidewalk expert so again, happy to follow your steer.

The only thing I'd check is that your proposal doesn't amount to tagging for the renderer: the fact that nearby streets have sidewalks as separate ways, and the consistency looks attractive to the eye, doesn't make it good mapping (though it may be good mapping for other reasons).

Your thoughts on that?

Thanks from me for contributing mosques!

Just so you know, it seems you have added Tin Mosque twice.

As a way: way/1494613388
As a node: node/13691368668

You could do one of two things:
1) Tag the building as building=mosque, and then remove the amenity= and religion= tags (assuming it is built as a mosque, and isn't a commercial building used as a mosque)
2) move the tags from the node to the building and delete the node.

I usually do (2), but either is acceptable.

I can do it if you like, but you may prefer to learn how to yourself - again, your choice.

Happy mapping.

Note made on CoMaps edit but not incorporated into tags by CoMaps app:

"Source:mosque = official Register of Places of Worship confirmed by multiple press reports
Source: address= register of places of worship, confirmed by planning docs Reading PL/21/0537"
OSM snapshot date: 2026-04-21T18:14:47Z
POI name: Al-Majid Centre
POI types: amenity-place_of_worship-muslim
#CoMaps ios 2026.04.23-19-ios

Thanks, I’ll switch the name and alt_name around in due course. (Might make alt_name a loc_name)

Oh, that'd be great!

Things I also try to get, if you get the chance: reg'd charity number; whether there is women's access (guessing not in your part of the world - mostly Deobandi territory); website.

An online mosques directory has the postcode as BB2 6PS.

Cheers.

makes sense - various online sources (all without open licence) show that.

I've consolidated the site here:
way/369555538/

Out of interest, is "Portobello Mosque" a name in use locally, even if not signed?

Hi,

I've fixed the tags on the way/1493534731

I don't know if it was an accident: the Sikh gurdwara was tagged as a Muslim mosque.

Happy mapping

Hi

Thanks for adding mosques around Blackburn. I've been adding some further details to them.

Forgive me if you know this: building=mosque is for a purpose-built mosque, but doesn't show the use of the building.

I don't know of any in the UK that aren't in use. If you find any more, do you think you might also add amenity=place_of_worship and religion=muslim? that way they will render on osm.org, and can also be found for other data consumers

lots of mosques are repurposed other buildings. again forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but those would be building=church or =commercial or just =yes, as appropriate.

Thanks and happy mapping

eteb3

Hi Merzof,

Thanks for adding several mosques around Oldham.

And forgive me if I've messaged you before about this.

Awkwardly, building=mosque is reserved for purpose-built mosque buildings, and doesn't indicate anythnig about the current use.

I'm trying to make the mosques data as complete as possible, and I wonder if you could use amenity=place_of_worhip +religion=Muslim if you find any more?

If purpose built, they can also have building=mosque - but from aerial it looks like some you've added are just ancillary buildings with no special architecture

I may have this wrong tho - please let me know if so

Happy mapping

Hi spiregrain,

Thanks for the edit - it's going to let me add a lot more detail for this mosque.

One quick thing: annoyingly, building=mosque doesn't represent a place of worship, rather a building built as a mosque. This looks like a converted building to me.

Most mosques in the UK should be amenity=place_of_worship + religion=muslim (and this makes them render on openstreetmap.org)

building=mosque can be added *as well*, if the mosque was purpose-built rather than converted.

I'm on a mission to re-tag so will do this one, too - just thought I'd let you know!

Happy mapping

Ok, I'll commit the edits with the church, and add a note.

Thanks for all your help with local knowledge.

Your edits suggest it does, btw, so I'm just double checking. If it does, the two mosques will be right next to each other, separated by just the access passage. On the other hand, the wider web suggests there's a church between them, so if you can confirm, great. If not, no problem, I'll commit these edits and add a note

That's great, thank you.

You're right about the rationale for restricting building=mosque. Happily, amenity=place_of_worship + religion=muslim exist to show the purpose the place serves. On the standard rendering at openstreetmap.org.uk, that appears on the map, whereas a "mosque" does not!

Thanks, I have made some edits adding charity registration details, websites, etc.

Before I upload them, one quick question:

Does FIC now have number 8 Burnhead Ln? Elsewhere on the web this is shown as a spiritualist church - but the mosque might have taken over the building?

Thank you, that does make sense!

I've added level tags to show the mosque is on the top floor.

As part of the mosque is purpose-built, it could merit the building=mosque tag you set. It seems the consensus among UK mappers is that such buildings ought to "look like a mosque" (in the stereotypical way: dome, minaret, etc), so I'm inclined not to revert to that. (I don't like the rule, but have not won the argument...).

From the 2008 planning application on the Clacks website, it looks like
- the extension was the long thin building running west along Argyll St?
- the mosque occupies the whole of the top floor? That's less clear: maybe the musalla itself is just the rectangle you added, with other rooms for madrasa, etc?

Any further help there most welcome.

https://publicaccess.clacks.gov.uk/publicaccess/files/0F4150907BCC699CFD0AE5340EA41BD7/pdf/08_00306_FULL-APPROVED_FIRST_FLOOR_PLAN-4082802.pdf

another query here, if you have time:

note/5318325

Salam,

I've just removed the building=mosque tag from Alloa Mosque because, counter-intuitively, that tag is reserved for purpose-built mosques. I've retagged as an amenity=place of worship

quick question tho, there is a computer shop in the middle of the area you created. do you know, did that predate the mosque and has not gone, or are they on different levels, or is one or other of them badly placed?

Thanks and happy mapping

eteb3

see here: note/5318540

Hi,

Just to say I'm going to change the tags on the building named Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyah to "yes" rather than "mosque".

Counter-intuitiviely, building=mosque is reserved for purpose-built mosques. From aerial view the other building, currently labelled as a place of worship named The London Mosque, and showing with the crescent and star symbol, may well be a building=mosque, if the dome is original (I suspect it probably is; it's on the qibla, suggesting it was designed and built as a mosque in the first place)

The Shirkat building looks like an ancillary building repurposed from sometihng else - unless you know otherwise?

I thought I'd mention it as I am trying to harmonise mosque tagging, and I've seen you've made a similar edit on other sites.

Happy mapping

missing source: aerial imagery

sorry, one more thing: there is another POI in that building, a Pakistani community centre.

my overwhelming suspicion is that the mosque is the community centre - for some reason they get called "community centre", and maybe they were originally intended that way, but eventually they are pure mosque.

do you know how it's signed on the street? their website calls it "Portobello Masjid", you have "Portobello Mosque", and Google (which I'm not going to use, obvs) has a sign on the outside of the building with the full name of the community centre.

any thoughts, or better knowledge than my Sassenach guessing?