Greenwich Islamic Centre has grown to be one of Londons largest mosques. The only purpose build mosque for the boroughs of Greenwich, Bexley and Lewisham. Is the 1970’s there was no mosque in the area and a few Muslims use to get together to pray in houses until they started using a local church hall in Woolwich.

In 1979, the Greenwich council rented a property (which was originally a pub) to Muslims in Woolwich. After some time, they were given a notice to quit, so they were in search for another property to perform their worship. In 1984 they founded a very small property and from then onwards, they managed to receive planning permission for this property and raise funds to start building a Masjid.

In 1985 GIC moved to its current location at 131 Plumstead Road from temporary premises in Woolwich New Road.

In 1996 a new 3 storey building was built.

In 2010 the foundations for a new building was laid on what was previously used as the mosques car park. This basement and main hall of this building for finally completed in April of 2021 ready for Ramadan. 

The community is now raising funds to complete the upper two floors of the new mosque which will give more prayer space for our sisters.

Today we are a large diverse multi-ethnic community (including Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nigerians, Somalis, Arabs, Kurds, Albanians and many others) that has hundreds of people attend the daily prayers and classes at the mosque, our Jumu’ah and Eid prayers have thousands attend. The mosque has facilities for women and children and welcomes our non-Muslim neighbours and visitors.