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The facility will change the present prayer room at Valley Parade, and has been refurbished in partnership with Regal Foods, which is additionally a membership sponsor.
The new prayer room, which is open to individuals from all faiths, was formally opened by executives from each City and Regal Foods at a ceremony held on Thursday, February 23.
It is offered for use by City followers for its first matchday on the membership’s residence conflict with Colchester United on Saturday, March 4.
The prayer room, positioned within the JCT600 Family Stand, is only some steps away from the seats and can give followers a facility to replicate and pray. It will likely be predominantly open to supporters on Bantams matchdays and options prayer mats and benches and seats for individuals to make use of.
It just isn’t the primary multi-faith prayer room at a Yorkshire sports activities floor that Regal Foods has contributed in direction of. The Bradford meals agency additionally supported an identical facility at Yorkshire County Cricket’s Headingley floor when it opened in 2016.
Younis Chaudhry, CEO of Regal Foods, primarily based in Wallis Street, has heralded the brand new facility at Valley Parade, saying it reveals the development made in soccer to welcome followers of all faiths.
The former Bantams season ticket holder remembers having to wish at his seat inside Valley Parade in previous years earlier than the primary prayer room was opened.
The multi-faith prayer room was formally opened by representatives from Bradford City and Regal Foods (Image: Thomas Gadd)
He mentioned: “It’s good. It is for each religion. It is offered for everyone.
“This is essential to us. It will likely be an enormous factor to the totally different communities.
“We have contributed in direction of it. This helps with inclusion. It’s nice and never a variety of golf equipment have one thing like that. It is de facto vital for individuals to have one thing like this.
“We are quick sponsors at Bradford City, so the prayer room is the second initiative we now have completed with the membership.”
City’s new multi-faith prayer room is bigger than the earlier facility it had accessible to followers to make use of on a matchday contained in the stadium.
Ryan Sparks, Bradford City chief govt, mentioned: “We need individuals to really feel welcome right here.
“Bradford is a really numerous and multi-cultural metropolis and we now have to signify that.
“We need a stadium stuffed with Bradfordians from all walks of life. That’s what Bradford is all about. It’s a welcoming metropolis.”
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