Abbreviation BAKWATA Location Dar es salaam | Formation 1968 Region served Tanzania | |
Chief Mufti Sheikh Aboubakary Zubeiry | ||
The National Muslim Council of Tanzania is an Islamic organisation based in Tanzania. It is well known by its Swahili acronym BAKWATA.
BAKWATA is a well-established faith-based Islamic organisation registered since 1968. The Council has branch offices all over Tanzania with a network from the national to grassroots level with 22 regional and 113 district offices served by over 700 sheikhs.
Around 2,800 mosques run under its co-ordination. It owns around 40 acres of land in each of its 22 regions and it has 20 secondary schools, two teachers’ colleges, two theological colleges, and a radio station and support numerous madras schools. From the late 1990s, BAKWATA has organised and facilitated training for its Muslim scholars on environmental issues. Ongoing work on environmental issues includes: environmental education for madras pupils in 10 coastal districts, environmental education and management clubs in 10 secondary schools owned by BAKWATA and spreading the use of environmental theological materials in religious ceremonies and sermons on Friday prayers for more than 80 imams and sheikhs throughout Tanzania.