New Premises
The proposed location for the new Arrahma Islamic Centre is situated on the southern side of Grange Road, Birmingham located amongst 1.86 acres of greenery in comparison to the current industrial site.
The property is well located in a safe environment, within walking distance of Coventry Road (a main street with shops and a lot of Halal restaurants) and with two miles east of Birmingham City Centre. Most of the facilities within the building are readily available. The site is level and contains extensive surfaced car-parking areas together with serene greenery and landscape.
The proposed new location for Arrahma Islamic Centre comprises of an extensive former Care Home and Day Centre. The Care Home is a two-storey configuration while the Day Care centre comprises a single-storey detached building.
The new site is situated next to Small Heath Leisure Centre which has a Games Court, a large football pitch, an indoor swimming pool and sports hall. A close relationship will be established between Arrahma Islamic Centre and Small Heath Leisure Centre that will enable worshippers and those utilising the masjid facilities to make use of the health related activities at the Small Heath Leisure Centre.
The relocation to the Grange Road site will greatly help to provide a ground-breaking variety of religious, educational and social services for the Muslim community in Birmingham. It will also assist in providing a well positioned, safe environment contributing even more to the spiritual, social, and cultural needs of the wider community.
WHAT SERVICES WILL THE NEW ARRAHMA ISLAMIC CENTRE PROVIDE?
There are a number of services which the new Arrahma Islamic Centre is hoping to provide and with your donations we can help to envisage these plans and turn them into reality.
Religious Services
- - Congregational prayers
- - Islamic advice and guidance
- - Conferences, Lectures and Seminars
- - Exhibitions on Islamic awareness
- - Hajj and Umrah Services
- - Marriage and Registration Ceremony
- - Funeral rights and bereavement
Educational and Training Services
- - Early Learning Programme
- - After and Weekend School
- - Arrahma Institute of Islamic Studies and Arabic [AIISA]
- - Islamic Reference Library
- - Open Learning Centre
- - Adult Learning Courses; English Language and ICT training
- - Da’wah workshop
Social Welfare and Community Services
- - Counselling and Advice Service
- - Parental Skills Workshops
- - Youth Club
- - Recreational Facilities for Children
- - Outreach work and Community Projects
- - Health Promotion Seminars
- - Interfaith Forum
- - New Muslim Support Network
- - Charitable Pursuits
WITH THE WEALTH OF SERVICES AND FACILITIES THAT THE NEW ARRAHMA ISLAMIC CENTRE IS HOPING TO PROVIDE THIS IS A WORTHWHILE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESS OF THE COMMUNITY.
In addition the new building will acquire funds to maintain itself through the use of the new Education Centre, Early Years Centre, Residential Rooms and Community Activity Area. As The Muslim Community Centre and Arrahma Masjid is a registered charity organisation we rely very heavily on your generous donations. We aim to ensure that every effort will be made to create the ultimate Islamic centre by providing the following services to the community and attempting to also generate funds. These funds will be acquired so that we can be self sufficient in the future. The funds that we hope to generate would come from the following:
Currently at Arrahma Masjid’s current location all revenue goes back into rent, utilities and maintenance costs, with hardly any funds being spent on social and educational activities which cater for the community’s needs.
Arrahma Masjid proposes to work in three primary phases for the development of the new Arrahma Islamic Centre and this will be done as follows: