Masjid At-Taqwa was a small unknown community that started with 25 African American Muslims back in 1981. Our community was so small that we used to have Jummah in the living room of one of our founding brothers, Br. Salim AbdusSabour on Fridays. Now African American muslims make up about…
Imam Siraj Wahaj becomes the first American-Muslim to offer an invocation (opening prayer) at the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Nick Joe Rahall II (D – West Virginia) introduces Imam Siraj in this recording on June 25, 1991. Siraj Wahhaj is an African-American imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New…