Community Mosque

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The Community Mosque of Winston-Salem was formally established September 1984. It evolved out of the organizational efforts of the Institute for Islamic Involvement, Inc., an Islamic membership organization dedicated to demonstrating an assertive Muslim involvement in the life of the general community. Several past members of the Washington, DC-based Islamic Party in North America, primarily Ibrahim Hanif, Jamal Abdullah, Salih Abdul Latif, and Khalid Abdul Fattah Griggs, labored to develop the ideological framework, organizational structure, and program of action for the Institute for Islamic Involvement. In May 1980, members of the Institute for Islamic Involvement secured a facility for the collective worship of its members, and the small pre-existing Muslim community in the city of Winston-Salem, NC. The facility, the Bruce Building, was located at 216 East Sixth Street on the third floor of a near-abandoned historic former medical office building adjacent to the city's downtown. Even though the building was not formally designated as a mosque, daily prayers, Salatul Jumah, weddings, domestic and social counseling and other functions generally associated with a mosque were conducted in space occupied by the Institute for Islamic Involvement. For the first years of its existence, beginning in February 1980, new Muslims constituted the majority of the organization's local working members. ...

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