Help AFECC Build a Masjid in Ardrossan, Scotland

This fundraiser is organized by Al-Farooq Education and Community Centre.

You can make a difference today by donating to Al-Farooq Education and Community Centre (AFECC), Ardrossan Branch

In the coastal town of Ardrossan, Scotland, there is a Muslim population that has no facilities for prayer or a place to unite for any religious activity. The majority of the Muslim population there is made up of Syrian refugees who have been displaced due to the civil war.

Currently, the Muslim population in Ardrossan only have access to a small space in a church building which they can only use once a week for Friday prayers. Some have not been able to pray obligatory prayers in a Masjid (Mosque) for as long as eight years! Sometimes they have to travel for three or four hours to go to a Masjid. Mosques are more than a prayer spaces. Al-Farooq Education & Community Centre (AFECC), Ardrossan Branch aims to...

Education: Islamic arts & religious studies for Muslim children and young people, designated communal areas for study, meditation and contemplation equipped with WI-FI zones.

Youth groups: sports activities such as bike club, health & wellbeing support such as counselling, community clean-ups and volunteering etc.

Social activities: AFECC Supper Club for local families in need, AFECC Mothers and Toddlers Club, coffee morning events and social dinners for the elderly, all open to the wider community.

The AFECC Glasgow team in charge of this project seeks to re-create the success of programmes and community initiatives they run on-site in Glasgow, in the new Ardrossan branch. AFECC Glasgow, for example, runs a supper club 6 days a week which provides food parcels to forty-five people daily. AFECC Glasgow's Mothers and Toddlers Club is held twice a week, and attended by forty mothers and their young children. It is a welcoming and engaging space in which mothers come together in support of one another and children flourish in the company of their newfound friends. Both these initiatives are open to the wider community.

The historic building which is to be home to AFECC Ardrossan has long since fallen into disrepair and requires extensive and highly specialised refurshbiments. Our team very much wants to preserve the structure and character of the building - God willing. In order to do so, we require immediate funds for phase 1 of this project which will cover:

External roof repair

Restoration of windows

Stoneworks repairs

The Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whoever builds a Masjid for Allah, Allah will build for him likewise in Paradise”.

This project is being overseen and managed by Al-Farooq Education & Community Centre in Glasgow which is hoping to make this vision a reality for the Syrian refugees and Muslim community in Ardrossan.

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