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For nearly 30 years, Al-Ehsan Centre has been serving the Muslim community in Melbourne’s southeast, centred around prayer, worship, and community life — built by families, run by volunteers, and grounded in faith.
What began as a small group of first-generation migrants gathering in homes and rented halls has grown into a close-knit community that prays together, learns together, supports one another through life’s milestones, and serves those in need.
Today, our community has grown — and so has the need to establish a Masjid and a centre where the remembrance of Allah, daily salah, Jumu’ah, Eid, and sujood can take place in a dedicated and dignified space.
Our vision is to help facilitate a Masjid where the community comes together around prayer and remembrance of Allah, where ordinary moments of worship, a quiet duʿā, a child’s first surah, a forehead in sujood, become a source of ongoing reward long after we are gone.
The total cost of this project is $815,000. We have already paid $65,000 as a deposit to secure the property. The remaining amount to be raised is $750,000.
This effort is about facilitating the establishment of a House of Allah, where worship remains at the centre and community services naturally flow from it.
Total project cost: $815,000
Deposit already paid: $65,000
Remaining amount to be raised: $750,000
If you have more time and would like to understand our journey, what we currently do, and why establishing a Masjid is important now, please read on below.
Nearly 30 years ago, Al-Ehsan Centre began with a small group of first-generation migrants in Melbourne’s southeast.
Many were far from home, without extended family, and with limited access to faith-based and community services. They recognised a simple but powerful need: a place where people could come together, support one another, and stay connected through their shared faith.
What united them was Islam, and a shared hope that the next generation would grow up grounded in their faith, confident in who they are, and connected to their roots while fully belonging in Australia.
Al-Ehsan Centre began with a humble intention: to serve the community by facilitating prayer, learning, charity, and mutual support, especially where such services were limited or absent.
Over the years, that small gathering grew into a community-led, volunteer-run organisation, delivering prayer, education, charity, and community support, often from rented halls, council spaces, and even the homes and backyards of community members. For many families without relatives in Australia, Al-Ehsan became a place to celebrate Eid together, break fast together in Ramadan, and find an emotional connection; not only to family back home, but to faith, belonging, and community.
We are family-oriented, grounded, and personal in our approach, shaped by the community we serve. We exist because of the community — and we are built by the community.
Today, Al-Ehsan Centre continues to serve the community through a range of faith-based, educational, and humanitarian activities, including:
All of this work is delivered by volunteers and supported by the community, despite operating without a dedicated Masjid.
For nearly 30 years, Al-Ehsan Centre has served the community from rented spaces, council halls, and temporary venues.
As the community has grown, so has the need for stability, continuity, and a place we can truly call home.
A permanent space is not about grandeur.
It is about ensuring Al-Ehsan Centre can continue and flourish as leadership transitions to a new generation who will carry this mission forward.
We have always dreamed of a modest, functional, and welcoming space:
With a permanent home, we can run programs more consistently, expand services, and better support families.
Our aim is to nurture a generation of Muslims who are deeply rooted in their faith and confident in their Australian identity — where one does not diminish the other.
Our vision is to help facilitate a Masjid where the community comes together around prayer and remembrance of Allah, and where worship is both personal and shared. A place where people gather for salah, where families stand side by side, and where hearts are united in humility before Allah. Here, a child may learn their first surah, an elder may find ease in sujood, and a parent may raise their hands in duʿā in a moment known only to Allah. Foreheads will touch the ground together, bonds within the community will deepen, and prayers will be made that we may never hear, yet their reward will continue to flow. This is the vision we are working towards: enabling ordinary, collective moments of worship to become a source of ongoing mercy, long after we are gone.
The property we have secured can accommodate up to 150 people for prayer at any one time. That means at every salah, up to 150 people can stand, bow, and place their heads in sujood to Allah — day after day, year after year. To help visualise this, the prayer area has been divided into 150 Sujood Spots, each representing a place where one person prays. This is a symbolic way to understand how the space will be used.
Sponsoring one Sujood Spot (valued at $5,000) is a way of facilitating the prayer of one person in this Masjid — helping make possible a space where that individual can stand before Allah in salah, repeatedly and consistently, over time.This is not about ownership or reservation of space. It is about contributing towards the establishment and upkeep of a House of Allah, and sharing in the ongoing reward (sadaqah jariyah) of every prayer made there.
All contributions — whether towards a full Sujood Spot or any smaller amount — collectively support the same purpose: facilitating worship and sujood for generations to come.
The total cost of this project is $815,000.
We have already paid $65,000 as a deposit to secure the property.
The remaining amount required to complete the project is $750,000, which is what we are raising through this campaign.
| Items | Amount |
| Property Purchase Price | $650,000 |
| Stamp duty, legal and acquisition costs | $65,000 |
| Renovation & Fit-out costs | $100,000 |
| Deposit already paid | ($65,000) |
| Remaining to be raised | $750,000 |
There are several ways to take part in this effort, based on your capacity and intention:
This effort is not about ownership. It is about serving, maintaining, and facilitating a House of Allah, so that sujood continues long after we are gone.
(Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim)
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