The Mother Mosque is the first purpose-built mosque in the United States. Other Muslim communities held prayer services in ...

In the summer of 1937, something remarka b le happened in Cedar Rapids. At the third anniversary celebration of the nation’s first purpose-built mosque — now known as the Mother Mosque of America — ...

Attendees arrive for Salat al-jama‘ah (Congregational Prayer) for the Day of Arafah at the Islamic Center of Greater Miami-Masjid in Miami Gardens on June 27, 2023. Al Diaz [email protected] ...

Former New York governor and independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, 67, paid a visit to the Masjid Ansarudeen Islamic Center in the Wakefield section of The Bronx on Saturday, Sept. 20, to meet ...

The strain of religious diversity tests Christians’ own principles. Debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, followed by the inflammatory press attention paid to Pastor Terry Jones's threat to ...

For all that the hyperbole surrounding the proposed building of a mosque and Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero would make it seem that religious tolerance – at least of Muslims – in America ...

Cedar Rapids, city of. Islamic Center (Mosque). Called the 'Mother Mosque' by local Islamic scholar T.B. Irving, this small building at 1335 Ninth Street (9th St.) NW, was constructed in 1934 and is ...

Austin Albanese is a historian and writer based in Rochester, New York. In the summer of 1937, something remarka b le happened in Cedar Rapids. At the third anniversary celebration of the nation’s ...