A small house on the current site of Lakemba Mosque was purchased and used by the Lebanese Muslim Association from the 1960s as a place of worship.

Taj El-Din Hilaly Taj El-Din Hilaly, the former Imam of Lakemba Mosque from the 1980s till 2007 (and whose wages were paid by Gaddafi's Libyan Islamic Call Society and private individuals"[7][8]) is known to have made numerous controversial statements.

— Taj El-Din Hilaly[9][10] He also said, "in the state of zina, the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman.

He also contended that his references to the prison sentence of Bilal Skaf, the leader of a group of Lebanese Australians who committed gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which he said that women would "sway suggestively" before men "and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years", were aimed at illustrating the need for harsh sanctions for rape.

Lakemba Mosque is always focused on delivering social justice and takes a strong stance against any forms of "wedge politics".

The LMA, the first Muslim-centered organisation in Australia, are the primary caretakers of all operations at Lakemba Mosque.