A mosque in the area of Erin Mills and the QEW in Mississauga was allegedly vandalized overnight on Thursday.The mosque is located inside the Southdown Village condo complex at 2121 Roche Court. Photos provided to CityNews show an overturned bookshelf, books and papers strewn on the floor as well as broken appliances. When CityNews attended, some of the debris had been cleaned up, but damage was still clearly visible.Manni Ahmed, president of the condo board, tells CityNews the incident happened around 1:30 a.m. He says the damage was discovered by condo residents in the morning, and Peel Regional Police was contacted.“I spoke with one of the detectives… and told him this is not only vandalism, it looks like it is hate vandalism,” he said.“The whole place has been vandalized, the holy books have been thrown out, scriptures have been thrown out, [there is also] physical damage of the space.”Holy books and scriptures are seen strewn on the floor of a mosque in Mississauga that residents believed was vandalized on April 30, 2026. CITYNEWS/Supplied- Manni AhmedAhmed added that families in the complex have expressed safety concerns to him in the past, but there have been no overt hate incidents in the past 15 years he has lived there.Peel police have not confirmed if the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, but Ahmed says they have provided investigators with surveillance footage of a person entering the mosque.“This is really alarming for the community… they’re not feeling comfortable at all,” said Ahmed. “This is the place we call home, and it must be a safe space for everyone.”