Background:
Islamic Centre of South Calgary (ICSC) has been operating out of a small, rented facility in a Queensland strip-mall since 2004 (At that time name of society was South Musallah Society). It can only accommodate approximately 85 people at a time. The Muslim population has almost doubled since 2005. Therefore, this facility is inadequate to fulfil the needs of the Muslim community.
Muslim Community from South Calgary had aspired to build a facility of their own where they could offer daily prayers, hold Friday and Eid Prayer Congregations, youth could assemble and community could benefit from Halaqas, Quranic / Islamic Education, and other community and interfaith activities.
In 2009, ICSC acquired approximately ten acre of land with a property in SE Calgary with the intent to develop the Islamic Centre of South Calgary. The site is located at 16555 – 104th Street SE. The land was situated outside city and no area structure plan existed, hence no construction could be undertaken without rezoning approval.
No one knew at that time the long, stepwise journey ICSC community was embarking on to make this project a reality. Al-Hamdulillah, we have it rezones, with Development Permit and Building (Construction Permit) in hand as a result of persistent and tireless effort by the select team of people.
With help of Allah and community support, Early/enabling works was completed at the masjid site in early Fall 2022. The enabling works includes site clearing, grading, water retaining pond for fire hydrant system.
- Plans
- 3D Rendition Videohttps://youtu.be/ogYRew3LjTo
Schedule (New Phase 1 Only):
- MCC supports raising of funds for project working with community in Calgary as per South MCC representative commitment of $1 Million for our project.
- MCC/ New Project Committee finalizes a build option for completion of Design & Engineering, City Permitting approval for option, and contracts to start Construction.
- MCC/ New Project Committee start the construction execution of the Islamic center project
- February 2023 – MCC/MAC to call SGM for seeking members approval for initiating construction of the ICSC Masjid project.
DONATIONS RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS REPORT
YEAR 2023:
- ICSC completed early works on the site in Fall 2022 with total cost of $150,000.
- $900,000 is available in the project account as per January 2023.
YEAR 2021 — ICSC has no access on project accounts during 2021
- $1.016744 MM in Bank (on 31 Dec. 2020)
JAN 2019 – Dec 2019 and Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 — ICSC_Project_Jan_Dec_2019_&_Jan_Dec_2020
Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 – ICSC Project Financials 2018_Jan_Dec_2018
- Committee Lead – Adnan Sami (President ICSC)
- MCC Project Growth Committee Lead – Ateeq Sheikh
- Local District – Project Coordinator – TBD
- Local District Community Member – Zahid Maqsood, Muzaffar Ahmed, Farhan Khan, Syed Kashif
ICSC Masjid Project Presentation to be delivered at the April 8th, 2023SGM:
ICSC Masjid Project Status as of February, 2023:
ICSC Masjid Project – Financial Plan updated in November 2022:
ICSC Masjid Project Presentation to be delivered at the April 8th, 2023SGM:
ICSC Masjid Project Status as of February, 2023:
ICSC Masjid Project – Financial Plan updated in November 2022:
July 31, 2023
Expression of Interest (EOI) for the ICSC Masjid Foundation Construction
Islamic Center of South Calgary (ICSC), a subsidiary of Muslim Association of Calgary (MAC), would like to start construction of the Masjid foundation in Fall 2023, Request For Proposals (RFP) of which will be sent to interested contractors, during August, 2023.
Please submit the EOI by August 10, 2023. The following documents contain the relevant information:
The EOI was sent to some known contracting firms. As well ICSC members and South Calgary Muslims community was requested to forward the EOI to the contracting firms they know or they can submit the EOI if they run a contracting firm that is capable of delivering project of this scale.