Masha’Allah we are thrilled to announce that our Muslim community in Eastlake is
growing! All of our functions from our Friday prayers to our iftars during Ramadan are at full capacity space-wise. Thanks to your help we have established a fully
functional Islamic school that teaches 65 students with a rapidly expanding waitlist.
With the future of our Muslim community in mind, we are pursuing a larger space, and we need your help insha’Allah!
What does the community need?
- More classrooms and space for the kids. The very successful Islamic school that is running on Fridays and Sundays reached its full capacity 5 years ago. We currently don’t have the ability to accept many new students that would like to be enrolled.
- Currently, we have 5 classrooms and one class is running in the open area which is also musallah and multipurpose room at the same time, and with various transformations dooring the week it changes its purpose but is far from ideal condition for our kids.
- Better conditions for kids. Current conditions in which kids study are very limited and not great. We have around 60-70 kids operating in less than 2000 sqft.
- Kids need larger classrooms and more space that’s available for playing.
- Proper restroom and wudu area
- Currently, we only have a single restroom with a single toilet and sink which is the only place where people can take wudu as well.
- We desperately need women’s and men’s restrooms and wudu areas to accommodate the current people attending the school programs and prayers.
- Larger prayer area
- Currently, we have a hard time accommodating all the people coming to jumuah prayers. We usually have to transform the multipurpose area for this purpose but it’s not very suitable for being a prayer area and not really a great space for the salah.
- During Ramadan, we also have to transform classrooms into prayer areas which are very hard to do for multiple reasons.
- Multipurpose room
- Currently, we have very limited space where we can organize community events. It makes it extremely challenging to organize community gatherings where people have to eat in various classrooms and also outside.
- We need a larger multipurpose room where we can have larger gatherings, lectures, and programs without compromising other areas in the center.
- Currently, we have very limited space where we can organize community events. It makes it extremely challenging to organize community gatherings where people have to eat in various classrooms and also outside.
Financial situation
Account balances
- New project bank account balance: $928,460
- Current masjid operational account balance: $68,311
Latest update: 1/12/24
We have already established a financial relationship with Devon bank which provided us with these general terms for financing the new center:
- They are able to finance from 35% to 75% of the property on terms of murabaha( cost + projected value) for 20 years.
- Guarantors for the loan are required.
- No penalty for an early payoff.
This means based on our current financials that we can potentially have a total cost of the project of around 3-4 million dollars. The stronger we are financially the better.
Update 12/2023
Devon has frozen their commercial lending for now because of general economic tightening. We’re still pursuing additional lending options and working on improving our financial situation.
Property Search
We have a real estate agent actively searching for a location or a building for the new Islamic Center. Unfortunately, the market in the Eastlake area for this type of property is very limited.
We’re currently looking for these types of properties:
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- Existing religious property that could be converted into an Islamic center.
- Commercial building that could be converted into a center.
- A land where we could build a center.
We have identified one beautiful property very close to our current location that would work for us. It’s the units 201-203. More info on it is available here.
We need your help
Financially
- Donate and support the project.
- Be a guarantor for the loan.
Spread the word
- Share the content from the center.
- Let people know about the masjid and attend the services.
Get Involved
- If you have any info or contacts you believe can help in making this reality, reach out.
- Volunteer some of your time at the center.