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11 Reasons Why Every Muslim Should Travel By Tharik Hussain

I take off at every opportunity I can, be it with family, friends or alone, exploring, photographing and documenting interesting stuff in exotic destinations and taking the odd selfie to make friends jealous along the way (actually I rarely go to exotic destinations and am still struggling to work the ‘selfie’ feature on my phone – although my wife and …

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Mosque worth over 1.8 Million EUR opened in Mainz

What they have been dreaming for over two years, when they started with the construction of the Islamic Cultural Center in the German city of Mainz, members of the jemaat from the mentioned city finally achieved. In the presence of a large number of their friends from neighboring and other jemaats, the members of jemaat of Mainz officially opened the …

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Passover at the Mosque: NYC Jews, Muslims Hold Multifaith Seder

"There was a happiness that could not be translated into words," one attendee said By Dana Reszutek A week before the important Jewish holiday of Passover, New Yorkers of various faiths gathered April 14 to celebrate it — in a mosque in midtown Manhattan The Islamic Society of Mid Manhattan hosted a multifaith Passover celebration with Temple Emanu-El and the …

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Russian president opens Moscow Grand Mosque

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated one of the biggest European mosques in the capital, Moscow. “This mosque will become an extremely important spiritual center for Muslims in Moscow and the whole Russia,” Putin said in a televised speech during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. The unveiling ceremony of the 20,000-square-meter mosque, known as the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, in the …

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