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In addition to offering regular prayers, lectures and conferences, the Salaheddin Centre assists disadvantaged and destitute members of the Toronto community with a full-time elementary and high school, marriage and counselling services, a food bank, youth programs, and funeral services, along with other activities that seek to improve people's ...
It is the oldest Canadian Islamic centre in the city and dubbed "the mother of all the mosques in Toronto". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Built in 1930 as a Presbyterian church, [ 2 ] the building was purchased in 1969 by Toronto's small, predominantly Bosniak and Albanians [ 2 ] Muslim community, and converted into the city's first Islamic worship centre.
The Prophet said: "There are no days more beloved to Allah that He be worshipped in them than the ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah, fasting every day of them is the equivalent of fasting a year, and standing every night of them (in prayer) is the equivalent of standing on the Night of Qadr."
The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in temperatures that climbed above 124 degrees ...
Masses of Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca on Thursday circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, a day before heading to the nearby desert area of Mina to officially open the Hajj, the ...
In 2013 the IIT helped fund a Muslim prayer space at Emmanuel College. [6] In 2020 the IIT cancelled in person prayer services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] Digital services and outdoor services were held in their place. [8] The campus hosted pop-up testing centers during the pandemic. [9] [10]
The Ismaili Centre, Toronto was designed by Indian architectural firm Charles Correa Associates in collaboration with Toronto-based Moriyama & Teshima Architects. A distinguishing feature of the building is the glass roof of the prayer hall, which recalls the corbelling in many of the traditional domes in the Muslim world. [8]
The Islamic Foundation of Toronto was established in 1969, when an old 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) building was purchased at Rhodes Avenue and converted into a mosque. The 2.3-acre (9,300 m 2) site, where the Islamic Foundation currently stands, was purchased in 1984. At the time, an elementary school was also conceived as an integral part of ...