الولايات المتحدة: إنشاء مسجد جديد بولاية كارولينا الجنوبية

يشهد الربيع المقبل افتتاح أول مسجد بوسط منطقة "روك هيل" بولاية "كارولينا الجنوبية"؛ خدمةً للمجتمع الإسلامي بالمنطقة؛ حيث يضطر المصلون لركوب المواصلات للصلاة في أقرب مسجد بالمركز الإسلامي بطريق "شيري رود".

ويتكون المسجد والمركز الإسلامي من طابقين على مساحة 4400 قدم مربع، ويتضمن مصليين منفصلين للرجال والنساء، إضافة إلى أن بناء المسجد سيشمل القبة والمئذنة، اللذان يعتبران جزءًا من البناء الهندسي التقليدي للمساجد.

وأكد "جيمس مور" - مدير المسجد والمركز الإسلامي - أن المركز يحتاج لقرابة 250ألف دولار لإكمال أعمال البناء، وأكد أنه لم يجد من أهالي المنطقة الذين رحبوا بالمسجد والمركز الإسلامي في إيجابية طيبة حتى الآن.

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First-ever mosque coming to Rock Hill

Rock Hill will be home to a mosque come spring.

Right now, Muslims in that area have to travel to places like Charlotte to pray and worship at a mosque.

The only place for followers to assemble locally is the Islamic Cultural Center, located in a strip mall on Cherry Road.

This spring that will change as the first-ever mosque should be ready for followers to attend. The mosque is under construction near downtown Rock Hill on Wilson Street right off of Main Street.

The two-story building will consist of 4,400-square-feet with separate prayer areas for men and women worshipers.

It will also have the traditional Muslim mosque features of a dome and minaret, which is used to call followers to worship.  

The group broke ground on the center a few months ago and said it will cost them about $250,000 to complete with much of the money coming from other Muslim groups in and around Rock Hill.

"It's a community effort,” says James "Jumah" Moore, the director of the center. “It’s not so much as members that will be doing this as much as it is a Muslim community itself".

Moore adds that Rock Hill has been supportive of the new mosque and that he has heard nothing but positive things from people he's run into.

"This community has been very, very receptive", he says.