Affiliation Ahle Hadith Designated 8 July 1982 Opened 1894 Architect Martin & Chamberlain | Completed 1893/1902, 1970s Reference no. 1211476 Phone +44 121 713 0080 | |
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Location Small Heath, Birmingham, England Website www.greenlanemasjid.org Address 20 Green Ln, Birmingham B9 5DB, UK Architectural styles Jacobean architecture, Gothic architecture Similar Birmingham Central Mosque, Ghamkol Shariff Masjid, Darul Barakaat Mosque, Jami Masjid and Islamic C, Small Heath Park | ||
Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre (GLMCC), a mosque in Birmingham., became an independent charity in 2008.
Established in the 1970s, 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 celebration in Small Heath Park called "Eid al-Fitr". 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, and 88,000 in 2016, and is organised by Green Lane Masjid and five other local mosques.
Controversy
It was also one of the mosques featured in Channel 4's 2007 Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque, which investigated religious extremism in British mosques including preachers advocating violence, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia. West Midlands Police subsequently carried out an investigation into whether criminal offenses had been committed by those preaching or teaching at the mosque. While West Midlands Police believed there was a case to answer and submitted their evidence to the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service), the CPS ruled that "a realistic prosecution was unlikely." The police subsequently investigated the programme itself and submitted a report to Ofcom on the basis of "unfair editing" designed to misrepresent the subjects of the programme. Ofcom ruled that there was no case to answer and that it was a "legitimate investigation." Ofcom further failed to uphold complaints from the Kingdom and Embassy of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Centre and the London Central Mosque. Both Channel 4 and the programme makers sued the CPS for libel, and settled for a payment of £100,000.
Firefighters visited the mosque in 2009 to teach people how to escape a blazing building or road smash scene. In 2007, the mosque came second behind the Sunni Madni Jamia Masjid in a national competition run by the British Islam Channel to find the country's 'Model Mosque'.
According to the Green Lane masjid Muslim women should not wear trousers as they "show off the detail of their bodies", even in front of their husbands.