JEFF KAROUB and NOREEN NASIR / Associated Press DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Imam Mohammad Qazwini’s deep understanding of Islam and his formal training at a seminary in the holy city of Qom, Iran, draws students to this suburban Detroit classroom just off the large prayer room of a Continue Reading
Utah’s largest mosque is taking shape, complete with ‘female friendly’ features
Peggy Fletcher Stack / The Salt Lake Tribune A new mosque with a surprisingly original look and feel is rising in West Jordan. Its domes will be pyramidlike triangles, rather than the spheres most common to mosques. The women’s section will be nearly equal in size and on the same floor as Continue Reading
New Haven mosque fire was intentionally set, investigators say
By Zach Murdock | Hartford Courant | May 13, 2019 A two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a New Haven mosque over the weekend was arson and a federal criminal investigation is underway, local and state officials said Monday afternoon. “This was intentionally set,” New Haven Fire Continue Reading
In Chicago, one mosque charts its own path
Aysha Khan / RNS On Friday afternoons, the tech startup staffers and other daily occupants of a downtown co-working space here are learning to coexist with a new neighbor down the hall: A small conference room on the third floor has been transformed into a Muslim prayer room. It’s not the Continue Reading
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