The principal mosque in North West London, it is located on Ealing Road, Wembley, and serves the United Kingdom’s fifth largest Muslim community, which is predominantly Pakistani and Bangladeshi.

[1] The three-storey semi-detached Flemish bond brick building was built in 1904 as St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, designed by Thomas Collcutt and Stanley Hamp, who was the main contributor to the costs.

The brick walls have stone dressings, and there is a tiled gable-facing roof, a broad barrel-vaulted nave, with Diocletian windows and a narthex within it in the form of a wooden gallery, an apse with a hemispherical ceiling, and an arched colonnade at the west end.

[citation needed] In 2003, construction began on the first expansion project, to create the Muslim Welfare Association, where a two-storey building adjacent to the mosque had been burnt down in a fire due to an electrical fault.

[citation needed] The MWA Committee was set up in 1985 to organise congregational prayers because there was no mosque in North West London despite the high number of Muslims.

It was bought by the charity funds of the Muslim community, and the money made from the sale of the smaller mosque, established in 1985 on Harrowdene Road.

[citation needed] As the building was listed, the committee found it hard to get permission from the local council for building plans but after a long time of trying and hard work, they finally got permission for a single storey extension linked to the back of the mosque to create a brand new ablution area, offices and funeral services.

At first, there was a slight financial problem but the community pitched in together and the mosque instantly raised £500,000 to rebuild the building and name it the Muslim Welfare Association.

[citation needed] The Wembley Central Mosque & Muslim Welfare Association decided to launch their second expansion project costing over £1 million.