USA: Minnesota's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to inaugurate Nusrat Mosque on 23rd May

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The community is looking forward to the inauguration of the mosque in Minnesota where the first Ahmadiyya missionary sent to the US had set foot in the mid-1920s.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: AMC Minnesota
By Staff Report | April 18, 2015

The Minnesota chapter's of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has announced the inauguration of their new mosque in Coon Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2015.

The Nusrat Mosque is the first place of worship of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Minnesota.

A communique sent by the president of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim chapter, Muhammad Abdul Khaliq, stated that the US representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Hon. Keith Ellison, will be the keynote speaker at the inauguration event.

Imam Naseem Mahdi, national vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community USA will be the chief guest, the announcement said.

Khaliq says the community is looking forward to the inauguration of the mosque in Minnesota where the first Ahmadiyya missionary sent to the US had set foot in the mid-1920s.

Dr. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, an Ahmadiyya Muslim Imam and scholar from India, arrived in the US in February 1920 to propagate the peaceful message of Islam.

Dr Sadiq visited Crookston, Minnesota in 1924, the community records show.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a reformist and fast growing international revival movement within Islam, is now the largest organised Muslim community globally and makes an active contribution to civic life everywhere it is established. Founded in 1889, the Community spans over 206 countries and territories with membership exceeding 160 million.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, established in 1920, is one of the first American-Muslim organization.



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