Green Lane Masjid
Description
Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre (GLMCC), is a mosque in Birmingham, linked to the Ahl-i Hadith Salafi movement. Established in the 1970s, it has been a registered charity in England since 2008.
The Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham. One of the buildings was originally constructed as a public library and baths, designed by local architects Martin & Chamberlain and built in the redbrick and terracotta Gothic-Jacobean style between 1893 and 1902. It is a Grade II listed building. The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, a community hall, madrasah, library, shop, and some accommodation. It also provides funeral services to the local Muslim community.
In Birmingham each year since 2011 there is an Eid al-Fitr celebration in Small Heath Park. This began as "an outdoor prayer facilitated by Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre." This was attended by 44,000 people in 2014, 60,000 in 2015, 88,000 in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017 and is organised by Green Lane Masjid and five other local mosques.
In addition, GLMCC runs and participates in various projects aimed at raising funds for charity and providing services for needy causes. Some of these include collaborating with My Foster Family, an organisation which raises awareness of foster care in the Muslim community, to distribute care packages for Ramadan throughout Birmingham "aimed at uniting non-Muslim foster carers with the Muslim children they look after are being handed out during Ramadan."
The Mosque also raises money through donations from congregants, estimated to reach £1million in the month of Ramadan in 2019, which will be used towards providing meals for Syrian refugees as well as for community iftars held by the Mosque for local residents weekly throughout the month.
In 2019, GLMCC made headlines for their announcement of a 'plastic-free Ramadan' in collaboration with ecobirmingham. In efforts to combat the issue of plastic waste, the Mosque installed water fountains throughout its building, opting instead to sell reusable water bottles to congregants rather than distributing free water bottles as it had done in previous years.
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Details
Location
20 Green Ln, Small Heath, Birmingham B9 5DB, United Kingdom
Worshippers
3500
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Year of Build
1970
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Description
Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre (GLMCC), is a mosque in Birmingham, linked to the Ahl-i Hadith Salafi movement. Established in the 1970s, it has been a registered charity in England since 2008.
The Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham. One of the buildings was originally constructed as a public library and baths, designed by local architects Martin & Chamberlain and built in the redbrick and terracotta Gothic-Jacobean style between 1893 and 1902. It is a Grade II listed building. The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, a community hall, madrasah, library, shop, and some accommodation. It also provides funeral services to the local Muslim community.
In Birmingham each year since 2011 there is an Eid al-Fitr celebration in Small Heath Park. This began as "an outdoor prayer facilitated by Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre." This was attended by 44,000 people in 2014, 60,000 in 2015, 88,000 in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017 and is organised by Green Lane Masjid and five other local mosques.
In addition, GLMCC runs and participates in various projects aimed at raising funds for charity and providing services for needy causes. Some of these include collaborating with My Foster Family, an organisation which raises awareness of foster care in the Muslim community, to distribute care packages for Ramadan throughout Birmingham "aimed at uniting non-Muslim foster carers with the Muslim children they look after are being handed out during Ramadan."
The Mosque also raises money through donations from congregants, estimated to reach £1million in the month of Ramadan in 2019, which will be used towards providing meals for Syrian refugees as well as for community iftars held by the Mosque for local residents weekly throughout the month.
In 2019, GLMCC made headlines for their announcement of a 'plastic-free Ramadan' in collaboration with ecobirmingham. In efforts to combat the issue of plastic waste, the Mosque installed water fountains throughout its building, opting instead to sell reusable water bottles to congregants rather than distributing free water bottles as it had done in previous years.