| Green Lane Masjid | |
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The Masjid, formerly Green Lane Public Library and Baths (Martin & Chamberlain 1893-1902) |
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| Location | Small Heath, Birmingham United Kingdom |
| Established | 1893/1902, 1970s |
| Branch/tradition | Sunni – Salafi |
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| Architect(s) | Martin & Chamberlain |
| Style | Gothic-Jacobean style |
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| Website: http://www.greenlanemasjid.org | |
The Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith UK, commonly referred to as Green Lane Mosque, is one of Birmingham's and Britain's major mosques.[1]
Established in the 1970s, the Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham. One of the buildings had been 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.[2] The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, a community hall, madrasah, library, shop, some accommodation, and it also provides funeral services to the local Muslim community.[3]
It was also one of the main mosques that featured in Channel 4's Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque, which investigated religious extremism in British mosques including preachers advocating violence, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia.[4] West Midlands Police subsequently investigated the programme, feeling there may have been a misrepresentation of the mosque that could have incited religious hatred, although Ofcom later reported that the programme had "accurately represented the material it had gathered and dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context".[5]
The mosque works closely with Birmingham City Council, West Midlands Police and local emergency services[6] and, in 2007, came second in a national competition run by the British Islam Channel to find the country's most 'Model Mosque'. [7] [8]
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