How Much Do Qur'an Lessons Cost? A UK Price Guide

How much do Qur'an lessons cost? In the UK, the prices providers advertise run from about £20 to £35 a month for a child's place at an evening mosque madrasah, and from under £3 to about £31 for a single one-to-one online lesson. One online academy, Kalimah, charges £42 to £170 a month.

This guide puts real prices side by side. Every figure is a named provider's own advertised price, converted into a cost per hour so a 25-minute lesson can be compared with a 60-minute one. You will also see what moves a teacher's rate, what hifz costs, and how to work out what you will really pay each month.

What do UK providers charge for Qur'an lessons?

UK providers charge for Qur'an lessons in two very different ways: one-to-one lessons priced per lesson or per hour, and group classes at a mosque or community centre priced per child per month. We read every price below on the provider's own website in October 2026. Prices change, so check the provider's page before you pay.

One-to-one lessons

Two cautions. Preply's figures are the first ten tutors on its London Quran page (eight charged £15 or less for 50 minutes), and the full list runs wider. Superprof's £14 is Superprof's own published average. Kalimah's price per lesson falls as you book more, from £10.50 on its smallest monthly plan to £8.50 on its largest.

Mosque madrasahs and evening classes

Per hour, a mosque madrasah is the cheapest way to learn by a long way: spread across several sessions a week, these fees work out at a pound or two, sometimes less, for each hour in class. But the teacher's attention is shared with the whole class, the pace is set for the group, and one-off fees of £20 to £50 sit on top at several of these mosques. Our comparison of one-to-one and group Qur'an classes goes through when each format works best.

How much does a Qur'an teacher charge per hour?

A Qur'an teacher giving one-to-one lessons charged between about £3.60 and £37 an hour across the prices we checked, once every lesson is converted to a full hour. Most of the individual tutor profiles we looked at on Preply and Superprof sat at £15 or less for a lesson of 50 to 60 minutes. Superprof puts the spread down to the tutor's experience and location.

The hourly figure matters because providers sell lessons of different lengths: 25, 30, 50 and 60 minutes are all common. A short lesson with a low headline price can cost more per hour than a longer one that looks dearer. To compare fairly, divide the price by the number of minutes and multiply by 60.

Why do Qur'an lesson prices vary so much?

Qur'an lesson prices vary because providers are selling different things: a seat in a group or a teacher to yourself, a new teacher or a long-established one, a short lesson or a full hour. Superprof attributes its own spread of rates to the tutor's experience and location. The table shows the main levers and what to check for each.

Qualification is the lever you can most easily overpay or underpay for. A teacher with an ijazah and a connected sanad has been certified in recitation by a qualified teacher, and that matters a great deal for detailed tajweed or the final stages of hifz. A seven-year-old learning the qa'idah does not need it yet, so pay for the qualification your goal needs now.

How much does hifz cost?

Hifz costs more than reading lessons mainly because it needs more lessons each week. Memorising the Qur'an means reciting new portions and revision to a teacher several times a week, so frequency drives the bill. Evening hifz programmes at mosques are the lowest-cost route: the British Muslim Heritage Centre in Manchester charges £60 a month (or £720 a year) for its hifz programme, and Edinburgh Central Mosque's children's hifz class is £20 a month (online, Tuesdays and Thursdays) or £10 for Saturdays only.

One-to-one hifz teacher fees are quoted like other lessons, per lesson or per hour, so the monthly cost depends on how many sessions you book. Five 30-minute lessons a week at £8 an hour comes to £20 a week, or about £87 a month; at £14 an hour it is about £152 a month. Our guide to how many Qur'an lessons a week suit each goal helps you set the frequency before you set the budget.

How do you work out the real cost of Qur'an lessons?

The real cost of Qur'an lessons is the price per lesson multiplied by the lessons you will actually take, plus any one-off fees, at the price you pay once the trial is over. Headline prices rarely show all of that at once. Run any offer through these six checks before you commit.

If you are comparing online Qur'an classes on price, our breakdown of online Qur'an lesson costs in the UK shows how lesson length and weekly frequency change a monthly bill at different hourly rates.

Is the cheapest Qur'an teacher good value?

The cheapest Qur'an teacher is good value only if your recitation improves, because mistakes learnt early are slow and expensive to undo. A wrongly pronounced letter or a rule applied in the wrong place hardens with every repetition, and someone then has to be paid to unpick it. Judge a price by what it produces over three months, not by where it sits in a list.

The opposite is also true: a low rate is not a warning sign on its own, because a teacher's price can reflect where they live as much as how well they teach. The reliable test is hearing them teach you, which is what a trial lesson is for. Our guide to judging a Qur'an teacher in one trial lesson shows exactly what to listen for.

Is it right to pay for Qur'an lessons?

Paying a teacher for Qur'an lessons is permitted on the more correct of the two scholarly views, as the Standing Committee answered when asked exactly this question on IslamQA. They gave two reasons: the general meaning of a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, and the real need for it.

The Prophet ﷺ said this after one of his Companions recited al-Fatihah over a man who had been stung and accepted sheep as his fee, and the others disliked it (Sahih al-Bukhari 5737). The occasion was ruqyah, and the Standing Committee applied the general meaning of the words to teaching. For the details, read the IslamQA answer and ask the people of knowledge near you.

What should a fair platform add for the price?

A fair platform should add the checks you cannot easily do yourself, and make the price plain before you book: teachers whose identity and qualifications have been checked, reviews only from students who actually had a lesson, a way to filter by price, and a free trial with more than one teacher before any money changes hands.

That is how My Tijarah is built. Every teacher is manually vetted: their government ID is checked and their degrees and certificates are reviewed before a profile goes live, and only students who completed a lesson can leave a review. Each teacher sets their own rate, and lessons start from £2.40 for a 25-minute one-to-one lesson (on an annual plan), among the most affordable ways to learn with a vetted teacher of your choice. You start with 3 free trial lessons with up to 3 teachers, 2 guides tailored to your goal and 1 personalised progress plan, with no card needed. When you are ready, you can find a Qur'an or Arabic teacher and filter by price, gender and speciality.