Dear Friends, The members and friends of Cordoba House join the worldwide Jewish community in sorrow over the horrific and senseless murders on Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We pray most especially for the survivors of the trauma and the families of the deceased, and for the slain themselves, who left this world on the holiest day of the Jewish week, the Sabbath, in the midst of their prayers to God. The Quran commands that we restrain each other to ...
Eid Mubarak from Cordoba House!
Weekly Jumu’ah, Muslim Leadership, Children’s Education, and More!
American Muslim Identity
As my children entered their teens, I noticed that they and their friends were expressing Islam in a manner that was quite different from their parents. A rather sensible version. When we had opened the doors of our mosque in Staten Island in 1990, Muslims of various ethnicities filled up the prayer hall—Pakistani, Indian, African-American, Arab, Turkish... Each group was expressing the faith in their own way... READ MORE (SabeehaRehman.com) ...
A Night of Spiritual Music in New York City!
On March 22 at East End Temple, Cordoba House organized a Qawwali event led by the Zaman Zaki Taji Qawwals from Pakistan. The program was part of Cordoba's overall mission of building a wider bridge of understanding across interfaith groups and creating the emerging Muslim American identity. Cordoba House Executive Director, Naz Ahmed Georgas, opened the performance with a verse from the holy Quran that emphasizes a commitment to realizing Abraham and Ishmael's prayers for establishing a ...