The Lindley Centre · Renovation 2026

Where we are 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.

The Lindley building photographed before The Eden Foundation acquired it, still carrying its original 'for sale' signage and 'Lindley Evangelical Church' frontage. — The Lindley building before we took it on, still up for sale, still carrying its Lindley Evangelical Church frontage.

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.

Inside, today

The building,
three days before closure.

A walk through the centre as it stands, photographed on 15 May 2026, the last weekend before the doors close. Every space here is being reworked over the next six months. Site photos and short walk-throughs will follow as the work progresses.

Lindley main prayer hall, May 2026: a brother sat in silent du'a with the campaign banner by the door. — **Main prayer hall**
15 May 2026

The Lindley entrance and reception area, with the temporary closure notices for 18 May posted on the wall. — **Ground floor 2nd prayer hall**
Closure notices posted

Entrance corridor
Ground floor

The first-floor landing at the top of the stairs at Lindley, with signs marking the rooms as the creche, sisters' room, children's room and toddlers' room. — **Staircase**
First-floor landing

The current kitchen area at Lindley, the space being expanded as part of the ground-floor fit-out. — **Kitchen area**
First floor

A multipurpose classroom and meeting room at Lindley, fitted with a whiteboard, blackboard and office chair. — **Storage and meeting room**
First floor

A smaller side room at Lindley with the Lindley Appeal campaign banner stood inside. — **Main prayer hall**
First floor

Original side room at Lindley showing the period feature wall and small fireplace. — **Side prayer hall**
First floor

What this funds

Getting there,
together.

These are the commitments the campaign is built around. Project budgets, build dates and supplier names will be published against each one as work progresses.

01

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.

02

Stair core & basement

A new stair core, with the basement opened up to give proper access and usable space across the floors above and below.

03

Ground-floor renovation

The ground floor remade around a proper community kitchen and a dedicated ablution zone.

04

External grounds & signage

External groundworks and new signage, with step-free access from the street, finishing the centre inside and out.

Floor plans

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.

Where your money goes

£350,000.
Every line itemised.

Three quotations on an open tender, signed by the committee and audited at year-end. Refined each quarter against the actual schedule of works. The full QS report is published on this page as the build progresses.

17%

Roof refelt, restructuring & feature skylight

£60.0k

16%

Structural works & new stair core extension

£55.0k

14%

Open-plan prayer space: walls, steels & fit-out

£50.0k

10%

Electrical & lighting

£35.0k

11%

Plumbing, heating & ventilation

£40.0k

12%

Wudhu, toilets & step-free access

£42.0k

15%

Joinery, ground-floor décor & finishes

£53.0k

5%

Basement works & contingency

£15.0k

Exploded axonometric drawing of the Lindley Centre showing all five work packages: roof, stair core, open-plan prayer space, ground floor & site, and basement. — The five work packages, drawn against the building.

During the closure

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.

Throughout the build

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Fundraising

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Calendar to follow

Renovation progress

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Updates on this page

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Named sponsorship

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

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