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Grand Opening of Recent ICRM Building T he grand opening of the Islamic Center took place on January 20th, 2012. Working with Muslim Student Association (MSA), the ICRM committees and the members invited all friends and families of Rolla and the neighboring cities to attend the grand opening. Guests were welcomed by offering them a cup of Middle Eastern and Turkish coffee and dates. Gifts baskets were also distributed to the guests. MSA members offered tours to the building. Question sand answer and social gathering were also Anan Takhrori provided in addition to lunch and desert. Over 400 people attended the event including the Mayor of Rolla. Also, students from the Missouri S&T campus including Greek Houses and other clubs and organizations, campus staff, Rolla business employees, and the construction crew were also glad to get a chance to join everyone in celebrating the grand opening. The purpose of the grand opening was to invite the Rolla community to learn more about the new center where five daily prayers are offered in addition to Sunday school and Arabic classes for kids and non-Arabic speakers. In addition to learning about the building, the guests had a chance to watch a documentary about the construction process and the challenges faced during the years of hard work. Movies about Islam, Muslim countries, and Muslims around the world in general were played in the classrooms. Guests had a chance to ask questions and get to know the Muslim Community of Rolla and their Muslim neighbors. Interview with Dr. Salah Taqieddin By: Tarique Ahmad One of the founding members of the Rolla Masjid is Salah Taqieddin, so to learn more about him and the founding of this masjid we conducted an interview with him. A summary of that interview is attached below. Dr. Salah Taqieddin was born in Jordan in 1944. During his time in Jordan he finished a mining engineering degree and worked with a large mining company in Jordan. While working he was able to gain a scholarship to go back to school and gain his master’s degree. As he was completing his master’s program he saw an ad to come to the Colorado School of Mines to get a PhD through Yaramouk University. He pursued his PhD there until he his advisor unfortunately passed away, which lead him to search for a new advisor and ultimately led him to Rolla, MO and the University of Missouri Rolla. He arrived here in 1979, just a few days before Eid al-Adha and at that time there were only ten or so Muslim students. Since it was so close to Eid he and the other students asked the foreign student advisor for help finding a place to make Eid prayer. The advisor was able to find them a church that allowed them to make Eid Salaah. As some more time passed they gained a Muslim student advisor, Ibarahim Adawi, which pushed them to find a place that they could make salah. This was when one of the students suggested renting a one bedroom house and using it as a mosque. They were able to find such a house and began to hold jummah prayers there until they were asked to leave by the landlord. At this point they began to go to a friend’s home and hold salah there, marking the end of 1979. In 1980 Dr. Salah graduated and returned to went back to Jordan until the summer when he returned as a visiting professor. As a visiting professor he was given a guest room in a guest house with a lot of vacant rooms at the time, so he would invite the other Muslims during Ramadan to come and join him. After that Ramadan he returned to Jordan again. When he was leaving for Jordan the Muslim Student Association was forming with Omur Tag as their advisor. He didn’t have much contact with Rolla again until two or three years later. He had heard that a couple of Muslim brothers had bought a home with the intentions of turning it into a mosque and had started praying there. Dr. Salah returned to Rolla in 2006 as a visiting professor in Civil Engineering. When he arrived he was astonished to see that the Muslim population had grown from 10 to almost 60 with a small home where they all prayed. The growing community was becoming too big for the house so they decided to build a new mosque in the same location as the old one. This lead to the creation of the construction committee that consisted of Dr. Salah, Dr. Assad Ullah and his wife, Dr. Abdul Jalel bil Arabi, Dr. Fethi Fenish, Dr. Chaudry, and Dr. Walid Assadi with Adul Aziz as their elected manager. They would meet every Saturday on the upper floor of the old mosque to discuss the building of the new mosque. Continued in Page 11 8 • Designfreebies Magazine • www.designfreebies.org S
Warm wolcoming with dates and Arabic coffee The ICRM main entrance in 2012 “Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a Some guests having a warm conversation at the ICRM Prophet Mohammed (Sahih Muslim) Guests having a tour in the ICRM building Some guests at the ICRM opening Some guests at the ICRM opening Some guests in the ICRM building Designfreebies Magazine • www.designfreebies.org • 9
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