Halal matrimony in Canberra, with the family in the room
Canberra's Muslim community is compact, highly educated and unusually transient — public servants, academics, students and diplomatic families move in and out constantly. It makes for a warm community, and a genuinely difficult one in which to find a spouse, because the people around you this year may well be somewhere else the next.
Zawaj™ widens the search without loosening the adab. It lives inside Alkasa, so you begin among Muslims rather than in a general dating pool. A sister lists her wali on her profile from the outset, there is no chat between a brother and a sister anywhere in the app, and when interest goes both ways it is her guardian who gets the call.
Muslim families across Canberra
Zawaj™ members in Canberra come from right across the metro area. You can search your own suburb, your wider region, or the whole country — whatever your family is comfortable with.
North Canberra
- Gungahlin
- Franklin
- Harrison
- Casey
- Belconnen
South & inner
- Yarralumla
- Monash
- Tuggeranong
- Wright
- Coombs
The community here largely centres on Canberra Mosque in Yarralumla and Canberra Islamic Centre in Monash.
Four steps, and none of them are swiping
- 1
Open Zawaj™ inside Alkasa
It is a feature of the Islamic app you may already have, not a separate account to explain to anybody.
- 2
Write a profile about your deen
Practice, family, intentions, what you are actually looking for. Sisters add their wali's details here.
- 3
Match on mutual interest
Nothing opens off one person's enthusiasm. There is no inbox and no way to be pestered.
- 4
Her wali gets the call
The brother receives her guardian's contact details — never her own — and the families talk.
Asked by Canberra families
Start looking in Canberra
Free to create your profile, wali-led from the first day, and nothing to swipe.
Halal matrimony in other Australian cities
Searching in Canberra covers Gungahlin, Franklin, Harrison, Casey, Belconnen, Yarralumla, Monash, Tuggeranong, Wright, Coombs. Learn more about how the wali fits into a marriage in our Muslim marriage guide.
