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…
Muslims with walkie-talkies and solemn stares, some of them armed off-duty correction and police officers, have started to patrol part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in another initiative to rid the community of crime and drugs, particularly crack. The patrols of men from the At-Taqwa mosque, at Bedford Avenue…