Our Foundation
What we do
Our Foundation
Rooted deep in the Muslim Community of Vancouver, Canada, CMT embodies a will to serve its fraternity as well as its neighbours from all other faiths to cherish unity, harmony, and brotherhood.
Our Vision
To introduce a model of Self-Sustainable, Futuristic, and Architecturally Iconic places of worship for Muslims, especially in the West.
Challenge
Exponential population growth, replacement of assembly places by commercial operations, and restrictive zoning of available appropriate lands.
Our Goals
Building a Comprehensive Community Hub for Worship and Beyond
What We Do
Our Foundation
Rooted deep in the Muslim Community of Vancouver, Canada, CMT embodies a will to serve its fraternity as well as its neighbours from all other faiths to cherish unity, harmony, and brotherhood.
Our Vision
To introduce a model of Self-Sustainable, Futuristic, and Architecturally Iconic places of worship for Muslims, especially in the West.
Challenge
Exponential population growth, replacement of assembly places by commercial operations, and restrictive zoning of available appropriate lands.
Our Goals
Building a Comprehensive Community Hub for Worship and Beyond
- CMT aspires to develop An Integrated Community Project comprising a culturally relevant master-planned community including health, social, education and recreational resources and related infrastructure. CMT’s vision incorporates a strong and specific intent to foster unity and collaboration through co-location of community-based infrastructure and public amenities to benefit all Muslim and Non-Muslim citizens of the region, now and into the future.
- The CMT leadership recognizes that the current status of large capacity gatherings, for worship and prayer as well as other type of congregation, across the lower mainland communities is extremely limited. Muslims are obliged to use commercial warehouses as their worship halls because of the lack of alternative assembly places. This leads to congestion and traffic jams during excessively busy times on Friday afternoons resulting in frustration and animosity between Muslim and non-Muslim citizens. As our communities continue to grow, this situation is only destined to worsen.
- Concurrent to this, there continues to remain a challenge in communities to keep up with growth and demand for health and social infrastructure such as education, health and recreation in addition to critical shortages in homes and housing.
- The CMT Integrated Community Development Project is to not only build a large Mosque and facilities to support Muslim-specific culture, community and practices, but more importantly, to develop a culturally relevant and integrated master-planned community including critical resources and infrastructure, with a strong and specific intent to foster unity and collaboration. We plan to deliver this through co-location of facilities and community based infrastructure and public use amenities to benefit all, Muslim and Non-Muslim citizens of BC, now and into the future.
