Halifax Unity Mosque
Halifax Unity Mosque is the 7th Unity Mosque in the family of El Tawhid Juma Circle Unity Mosques! The Unity Mosque family of Muslim congregations welcomes everyone regardless of race, class, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or religion and is child- and youth-friendly.
Announced that it was opening in the summer of 2014! The Halifax Unity Mosque is an expansion of the Toronto Unity Mosque, also called el-Tawhid Juma Circle. The mosque is a “gender-equal, LGBTI/queer-affirming” place for Muslims to worship, according to its Facebook page.
Organized by TroyJackson? and SyedAdnanHussein?
Facebook group here
WayvesMagazine review of a service here
The main page for the el-Tawhid Juma Circle Unity Mosque is here
2014-07-25 CBC article
History
- Facebook Group unused since July, 2016
- July 28, 2016 event: Queering Islam: Starting Conversations. Roundtable discussion featuring Dr Sailaja Krishnamurti, SMU; Dr Syed Adnan Hussain, SMU; El-Farouk Khaki, Imam, El-Tawhid Juma Circle; Troy Jackson, Founder, El-Tawhid Juma Circle / Artist at St Patrick's Church, Brunswick St. poster here
- March 8, 2015, March 22, 2015, April 12, 2015, April 26, 2015, May 10, 2015, May 24, 2015, June 7, 2015 (more maybe??) Services: "Friends, please join Halifax Unity Mosque on Sunday for a gender-equal, LGBTIQ-affirming Congregational service."
- January 15, 2015 posting by MaryLunnMoore?, encouraging people to protest antisemetic comments "tweets, some of which refer to Hitler, gas chambers and ovens, are meant to be satirical and he is simply trying to make a point about freedom of speech." by DawgfatherPHD / Jerry Reddick / Jeremy Elms. The tweets did not result in charges.
- July 25, 2014 CBC News article, "Halifax's first gay-friendly mosque opening this summer" with quotes from Syed Adnan Hussein and Troy Jackson
- December 31, 2013 Facebook page is created
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