The mosque is run by the (co-located) Islamic Society of Victoria Inc (ISV) and, between 2007 and 2011, was the seat of the late Muslim cleric, Sheik Fehmi Naji El-Imam, who was appointed as Grand Mufti of Australia.

[citation needed] In 2009, the Darebin City Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Society of Victoria (ISV).

[3][4] In the 1990s supporters of cleric Mohammed Omran engineered an election and amended the Preston mosque's constitution while the imam, Sheikh Fehmi el-Naji, was on the Hajj to Mecca.

Supporters of Sheikh Fehmi worked hard over the next decade to regain ground, and by 2005 were claiming that they had achieved an uneasy balance within the congregation.

[5] In 2012, a Preston mosque committee member advised wives to "fulfil the rights" of their husbands, by sharing him with other women.