Roof, structure & prayer space
A full roof upgrade and structural restructure, with the internal walls taken down to open up a single, light, open-plan prayer space.
Campaign live · Day 28 of 184
Our home,
rebuilt.
Lindley closed its doors in May for a six-month renovation. When we re-open in November 2026, we'll have a centre to deliver our vision for the community for the next 10 years.
Let's renovate it together.
Where we are nowClosing for now.
Closing for now.
Building for always.
We’ve outgrown the building. A roof at end-of-life, a wudhu queue that spills into the corridor on Friday, and a community that has grown beyond what the original layout allowed for. A six-month closure means we finish quickly, and we reopen in November.
In April 2017 our bid for the Lindley Evangelical Church beat more than 20 others to reopen it as the Eden Centre Lindley, a humble home for our community. Since then: unbroken daily prayers, Jummah, food bank and food drops, Eids and our late-night taraweehs, grown from serving a few dozen families to over 400.
Nine years on, the roof has reached the end of its life. Every Jumu'ah is at full capacity - so much so that we now hold two back-to-back, just to make room for everyone who comes to pray. The building is dated and limits access to meet community needs.
Where do we want to be? Dedicated entrances and wudhu areas, an open prayer space that feels like a mosque, and a community kitchen at its heart. A flexible layout that gives brothers, sisters, youth, elderly and disabled members safe, secure access, and room to gather. A place of reflection, Salah, Dhikr, Ilm and community.
Every line of this brief came from the community itself.
The Lindley building before we took it on, still up for sale, still carrying its Lindley Evangelical Church frontage.
Phased deliveryGetting there,
Getting there,
together.
This will require effort but the benefit will serve us and the next generation. Our collective means will allow us to succeed beyond our individual reach. We come together for the Ummah to enable the greater good. Our building aspirations are built upon unity of our brotherhood. Join us, with trust in Allah, on the path of the Chosen One; building 'Our masjid, Our Community, Our Future'.
P1Roof, structure & prayer space2mo
P2Stair core & basement2mo
P3Ground-floor renovation1mo
P4External grounds & signage1mo
1Phase 01Active
Roof, structure & prayer space
May → July 2026 · 2 months
- Roof refelt and restructure
- Health & safety upgrade
- New feature skylight
- Internal walls removed
- New steel structural supports
2Phase 02
Stair core & basement
July → September 2026 · 2 months
- New rear extension (stair core)
- Basement opened up for access
- New male wudhu area
- New community storage
3Phase 03
Ground-floor renovation
September → October 2026 · 1 months
- New community kitchen
- New female wudhu & ablution zone
- New additional prayer space
- Step-free disabled access
4Phase 04
External grounds & signage
October → November 2026 · 1 months
- External groundworks
- New signage, inside and out
- Final finishes & snagging
From siteUpdates,
Updates,
from the build.
As the renovation progresses we’ll publish short dispatches from site: the project lead and the imams, posting from the build itself. First update lands with phase 1.
Floor plansThree storeys,
Three storeys,
opened up.
Architect’s plans for the post-renovation layout. The ground-floor walls come down to make a single open prayer hall on the first floor; new male and female wudhu split between the basement and ground floor; step-free access from the street; and dedicated kitchen, office and meeting space.
Basement
New floor-level access, reception and shoe-drop, boiler room and store, ablutions and toilets.
Ground floor
Renovated floor: DDA toilet, kitchenettes, ablutions and toilet, store and shoe-drop.
First floor
Open-plan prayer hall with a vaulted ceiling and natural light, plus a safe-by-design fire staircase and exit.
During the closureNothing stops.
Nothing stops.
Everything moves.
Please join us at Highfields, our nearest centre, while Lindley is closed. Five-times salah, Jumu'ah, the Maktab and Al Ihsan adult education all continue there, with all our imams.
Dua
Keep Lindley, its builders and our whole community in your duas as the work goes on.
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Have a part of the build dedicated as a sadaqa jariyah. Recognised on a permanent plaque in the entrance hall.
Feature skylight£7,500Prayer-space mihrab£5,000Male or female wudhu area£3,500Office & kitchen fit-out£1,200Single brick£50
Get in touch about sponsorship →Larger or planned gifts
For larger one-off gifts, planned giving over the appeal period, or anything that needs a quiet conversation, please contact us and the campaign team will follow up personally.
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The current building has served the community for over two decades and is at end-of-life on electrics, heating and roof. Patching it for another year costs more than the first phase of the renovation. A full closure means we finish in six months instead of three years.
Please join us at Highfields, our nearest centre. Five-times salah, Jumu'ah and the weekend Maktab all run there throughout the renovation. Same imams, a few minutes' drive from Lindley.
Yes. The Eden Foundation is a registered charity (no. 1153029). If you're a UK taxpayer, ticking Gift Aid adds 25p to every £1 at no cost to you.
Yes. For one-off gifts that need a quiet conversation, or for planned giving across the appeal period, please get in touch via our contact page (tef.org.uk/contact) and a member of the campaign team will follow up personally.
£300k is the first stage of fundraising. The full build comes in at £450,000. Every pound past £300k goes directly toward the next stages of the build, and anything raised past the £350k build cost enters a maintenance endowment so the centre can be looked after, year on year, without another campaign at this scale.
Yes. Named sponsorship is available for the prayer-space mihrab, the community kitchen, the wudhu refurbishment and individual bricks. Get in touch via our contact page (tef.org.uk/contact) to discuss.