About Shaw University Mosque

In 1981, the daughter of the Late King Khalid ibn Abdul-Azizz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia made a generous grant of $1,000.000 US to Shaw University for the building of an Islamic and International Studies Center, including a Mosque, Library, Rooms for Lectures, Offices, Etc.

This project was the “brain-child and vision of the Late Dr. Urabi Mustafa of Shaw University, the Director of the International Studies Program. Construction of the building began in 1982 and the opening day and first Jumuah Prayer was held on Friday August 19, 1983. (Read more…)

The By Laws of Jama’ah At-Taqwa.

PREAMBLE

We, the believing Muslims of Jamaa’ah at-Taqwa, Raleigh, North Carolina, grateful to Almighty Allah (glorified and sublime is He), the Sovereign ruler of nations and systems of knowledge, for the preservation of Qur’an and Sunnah, and acknowledging our dependence upon him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do for the more certain security thereof and for the better administration of this Jamaa’ah ordain and establish this constitution.

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The name of this association shall be Jamaa’ah at-Taqwa, which shall be a not-for-profit religious organization. (Read more…)