The objective
The main objectives of the centre is promoting Religious, Cultural, Social, Educational and Economic well-being and welfare of the Muslims and promoting the study and acquisition of knowledge of Islam, its institutions, observations and practices, mainly focus issues related to Muslim community, Social and other Multi Religious activities.
Vision
Making Sri Lanka Islamic Centre the Hub of our community activities
Mission
Bringing communities closer
Sri Lanka Islamic Centre
The Sri Lanka Islamic Centre is a Non-Government Islamic Organization established on 17th December 1985 by Late Hon Al Haj M.H.Mohamed MP with the association of Motama Al-Alam-Al Islami (The World Muslim Congress), and Rabitha Al-Alam- Al Islami, based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The centre was incorporated under the Parliament Act No.2 of 1991.
It was moments of a dream come true for the Centre’s founder and Chairman Late Al Haj M.H.Mohamed who was then holding a cabinet portfolio in the Jayewardene Government as the Minister in charge of Transport and the Muslim Religious & Cultural Affairs, which was created for the first time on May 16, 1981 at the personal initiative of Mohamed. For nearly three decades Mohamed was harboring a wish to establish an Islamic Centre, which could be the focal point for research and religious cultural development of the Muslims in Sri Lanka, on the lines of SLIC functioning in the Arab countries. Particularly, he was inspired by the well-equipped Islamic Centre in places like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. He would have hit this idea for the first time when he came across Dr Saad Ramadham, an Egyptian exile in Switzerland who was running an Islamic Centre in Geneva with himself as its Director.