Croydon Mosque & Islamic Centre (CMIC) started in a small ground-floor hall in West Croydon in the early 1970. The local Muslim community commenced raising funds and in due course a large Victorian House was purchased, eventually demolished and the Mosque evolved, over several phases and over a period of 20 years, into the structure today. CMIC contains 7 large halls and has the capacity to accommodate 3,500 people currently, with construction plans to increase this capacity to 4,000.