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| Islamic Center of Tucson: ★★ This masjid used to be heavily influenced by Gulf understandings of Islam. Over the years I think it has been slowly transformed due to the diverse Muslims who have begun to take action within it. There is still a lot to be done as far as doing outreach, holding classes (and actually advertising classes so that people know about it) and of course there is the fact that sisters are in a separate room, which in masaajid usually results in few opportunities to see or have access to masjid leadership and the womens room used as a sort of babysitting room for people to dump their children in.
UPDATE: The community is moving in the wrong direction. They hired a foreign imam and the khutbas are now only in Arabic and therefore inaccessible to most of the congregants. What is the point? Use that money to send one of your own to learn and come back and serve as imam. He can better understand the community and the culture. (Submitted on January 27, 2012) |
| Danbury Masjid: ★★ The imam someone referred to must have left. My husband attends because I work on Fridays in the area and he goes to juma. He says the khutbas are very boring and simplistic. Sometimes a very old man gives it, sometimes a very young, inexperienced man who does not dress properly for the minbar. They don't seem to have an imam. (Submitted on January 27, 2012) |
| Masjid Tawheed: ★★ Not women-friendly. I went here years ago. There was a musalla for men and then a mashrabiyya (thickly-carved wooden screen) in front of the women's area in back. However when the imam started his dars (Arabic only!), the men proceeded to cut the men's musalla in half by closing a portable wall so that those of them who wanted to memorize Quran could do so behind the wall and not disturb the dars. This, of course, left the women completely cut off from the dars. There were only a few women present. Even the bathrooms were Yemeni; they were holes in the ground with a hose to wash yourself. I dont mind using them, though I prefer toilets...but the bathroom was unclean. (Submitted on July 9, 2011) |
| Islamic Association of Greater Hartford: ★★★★ Nice masjid. Clean. Women in a balcony with see-through glass. Decent programming. For the open-minded, religious crowd. Has a good relationship with the Muslim community at Hartford Seminary (Submitted on June 17, 2011) |
| Muhammad Islamic Center : ★★★★ Community of WD Muhammad, (Sunni) largely African American but welcoming to all. Small, community feel. Women in same musalla as men for prayers and programming, except juma when they go to a decent upstairs area because the main musalla is modest in size. Unfortunately, khutbas tend to be very long and over the heads of most people there. (Submitted on June 17, 2011) |
| Hartford Seminary: ★★★★★ A lot of uninformed Muslims dismiss Hartford Seminary as a Christian institution that couldnt possibly serve the needs of Muslims. This couldn't be further from the truth. The students hold juma on campus the first Friday of the month. Muslims of many persuasions (Salafi) included are admitted and classes are taught by practicing Muslim professors. This is the only institution graduating Muslim chaplains that go on to serve our community in ways that no other institution is currently doing. Muslims as far away as California come for the week-long intensive classes. I think that Muslims should look into things or meet former students before they slander people and institutions that are meeting Muslim needs. Expect an intellectual and not always dogmatic, approach to subject matter. Some aspects of madrasa culture are absent (at times, refreshingly so). (Submitted on June 17, 2011) |
| Islamic Instiute of Learning: ★ Small mosque mainly for storeowners in the area and local African-American residents. Women tend to be extremely conservative preferring to be behind a curtain (not my cup of tea). There is an Islamic school but very disorganized, and no supplies. It is more like a daycare. Sorry but I must be honest. (Submitted on December 10, 2010) |
| Al-Huda Islamic School: ★★★ This school is caught between the parents who don't want to pay for quality education until they see more qualified teachers, and the need for such money in order to attract more qualified teachers. Community members complain, but the PTA is mainly one sister, may Allah bless her. Until the parents takes a real stake in monitoring this school and making demands, I think it will continue to struggle. The faculty as a whole consists mainly of foreign-born Muslims, which results in a curriculum that emphasizes Arabic and Quran heavily, but not so much the skills of how to negotiate healthy relationships with other non-Muslim students once they graduate Alhuda and go to a public middle school. Administration can improve in terms of how to speak to parents and how to take criticism less personally. There is no transportation for students, which is problematic for many parents. Based on my understanding, the lack of proper faculty planning during the summertime (when administration travels overseas) causes a lot of disorganization and loose ends during the start of the school year (insufficient staff). (Submitted on December 10, 2010) |
| Masjid as-Salaam: ★★★★ As I walked through the ghetto to get there,I wasnt sure what to expect. I read in advance that the sisters entrance was in the back....sure is! The only way I could tell its backdoor from all the others was that someone had tacked a little sticker on the backdoor with the bismillah in arabic. Its too bad that sisters have to deal with such things even at the most wealthy mosques. Anyhow, despite the run-down musalla where the TV kept turning off and needing to be turned on again....if you can believe it I enjoyed myself there. It had a humble air about it that reminded me how the Prophet's masjid might have been. It helped that the imam that day was Djafer Sebkhaoui, I don know if he's regular now but our MSA had brought him to syracuse years back so I was touched when he appeared on the TV screen. Go for the sisterhood and the good khutba, and donate generously. (Submitted on June 20, 2008) |
| Islamic Society of Central New York: ★★★ Insha Allah this community will get it together and find a new space. This tiny masjid serves all the Sunni Muslims of Syracuse! Jumma parking was a nightmare when I lived there. The cemetary across the street let us park there free but then there were complaints that the Muslims were littering and parking in bad spots and it was very embarassing for us as a community. There was a somewhat strict Islam practiced there, some women who are not praying wont enter the musalla and sit in the stairwell instead, even though the stairwell roof leaked and it was freezing there during Syracuse winters! Allahu alim but I feel Islam is common sense and the sisters shouldnt have to sit in the cold to hear khutba when they cant pray. Nevertheless, memories of iftars at people's houses remain with me to this day and there are good Muslims everywhere alhamdulillah. (Submitted on March 30, 2008) |
| Islamic Center of Rochester: ★★★★ The imam is a very kind man who does a lot to make Muslims in Rochester visible and engaging with others. Perhaps because of this, I dont think the ICR has received the backlash other masaajid in America suffer. This masjid has the right idea, may we all follow it. Best of all, the sisters get a balcony instead of being stuck in a separate room, watching a Tv screen. I appreciate that a lot now that I live in an area that barricades the women. I appreciate that they make efforts to beautify the inside of the masjid. (Submitted on March 30, 2008) |
| Islamic Center of East Lansing: ★★★ Nice people, they sell food sometimes but you have to go to the brother's side to get it. Also this masjid conforms to a style that I usually see from masaajid who got donations from Gulf countries for its construction: separate women's room behind the men's with windows to the main musalla but theyre always covered in blinds. Somewhat off-putting to be so far away from where the action is. How can anyone ask a question of the Imam or feel comfortable doing so when he is on the other side of the building? ISNA president Ingrid Mattson was right- we need more female-friendly masaajid! Aside from that it was clean and a few sisters welcomed me even though I was wearing niqab at that time. (Submitted on March 30, 2008) |
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