A Muslim marriage app built for Muslims in the UK.
Britain's Muslim community is one of the most diverse in the world — South Asian, Arab, Somali, Turkish, North African, and a fast-growing convert community, often across two or three generations in the same family. Zawaj is part of that community's search for marriage.
Between biraderi and the app store.
For a lot of British Muslim families, especially South Asian ones, marriage has traditionally run through biraderi and community networks — introductions made by aunties, family friends, or the local mosque community. That system still matters to many families, but it doesn't always reach the people who need it: second and third-generation British Muslims who are busy, spread across different cities, or simply outside their parents' immediate network.
Apps like Zawaj haven't replaced that system so much as extended it — giving you a wider pool of genuinely serious people to consider, while still leaving room to involve your family exactly the way you always would. Many members treat Zawaj as a starting point, then bring in a wali or parent once a conversation is going somewhere.
Built around how British Muslims actually search.
Filters that reflect real diversity
Search by practice, background, and sect — useful in a community as varied as the UK's.
Room for family, on your terms
Bring a parent or wali in whenever feels right — see our guide on involving your wali.
A genuinely national community
From London and Birmingham to Manchester, Bradford, and beyond — with new members across the UK joining every day.
Single, divorced, or widowed?
See our dedicated page for Muslim women in the UK — including guidance for starting a search again after divorce or the loss of a husband.
Not sure where to begin?
Read how Zawaj works or our guide to finding a spouse the halal way.
Zawaj in the UK's cities.
See how Zawaj works in London, Birmingham and Manchester, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Luton, Bristol, Glasgow and Cardiff, and for British Pakistani, Bengali and Somali families — or see all locations.
More UK cities: Edinburgh, Nottingham, Coventry, Derby, Liverpool, Blackburn, Bolton, Slough, Newcastle, East London.
And: Oldham, Rochdale, Preston, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Peterborough, Reading, Southampton, Oxford, Cambridge, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge, Walthamstow, Ealing, Brent.
More towns and cities: Bedford, Keighley, Burnley, High Wycombe, Crawley, Rotherham, Stoke-on-Trent, Belfast, Aberdeen, Dundee.
Also: how to choose the best Muslim marriage app, Muslim marriage sites, reverts and converts, are Muslim marriages legal in the UK?, a modern alternative to a marriage bureau, Muslim matchmaking, Muslim speed dating, Muslim matrimonial in London, marriage and disability, Muslim matrimonial and halal alternatives to dating. Planning a wedding? Read how to register a Muslim marriage in the UK, find an imam and our wedding checklist, or plan a simple, affordable wedding.
For specific situations: single mothers, divorced and widowed Muslims and students and graduates. Men can read Zawaj for men in the UK.
Legal and religious guides: Islamic divorce in the UK, the age of marriage in Islam and UK law, marrying a spouse from abroad and arranged vs forced marriage.
Sisters can read Zawaj for women in the UK, for professional women and can a divorced Muslim woman remarry?
Join Muslims across the UK searching with intention.
Download Zawaj free — available across the UK.
