[asivisepo]

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento congregation was facing an Easter without a home this year until the most unlikely of locations opened their doors and welcomed them inside.

The Spiritual Life Center of Sacramento lost the lease to their church a month prior to their biggest service of the year, but Reverend Michael Moran said a dream offered hope in the face of despair.

"We were desperately looking for a place to hold our Easter services. I had a dream and in the dream I saw a newspaper headline that read, 'Easter at the Mosque'," reveals Moran. "But when I awoke, I said that will never happen."

But in an act of compassion and generosity, the Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims (SALAM) turned Moran's dream into reality.

Ifran Itaq of SALAM said the decision to allow Moran's congregation to celebrate their faith at the mosque was simple.

"For us, mosques, churches, synagogues are places where God's name is mentioned and they are holy places, and this is the sharing of those faiths in one of those institutions."


http://www.news10.net/news/local/art...Easter-service

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A very good thing. Good Christians and Muslims should come closer!

[Snocioncilm]

:salaam:

Im a bit skeptical about this story...The 'mosque' looks more like a hall, and i could'nt see anything distinctive in the hall that could resemble a musjid. Then again, the footage in the video is'nt that long, so i may be wrong...

In any case, may Allah(SWT) save us from such fitna.

[Aizutox]

I heard that it was a community hall owned by the masjid or the local muslim community.

[kubekniekubek]

The main mosque we used to attend is in downtown Sacramento.

This is seems to be a new build, sort of like a mosque and community centre in one.

[asivisepo]

The main mosque we used to attend is in downtown Sacramento.

This is seems to be a new build, sort of like a mosque and community centre in one.

Which mosque? The old one (that is one of the earliest mosques in the area)? We both live in/around Sac

[Gremlinn]

A very good thing. Good Christians and Muslims should come closer!

Yes. They should celebrate Easter and Xmas also together....in the mosque.
OMG.......I am gonna be called narrow-minded now.

[xIuvyAuT]

[fenter1]

How on earth can this be a good thing? Why not then let Hindus bring their idols into a mosque and worship those as well? Mosques are places where the oneness of Allah is praised, not where polytheism should be promoted. There are fewer issues with letting Jews in a mosque for them to carry out their religious services than Christians - at least Jews aren't polytheistic.

Polytheists have been called najis in the Qur'an and there's a reason why non-Muslims, especially polytheists, are banned from entering Makkah because their polytheism is a profanity.

[indocrew]

^ Especially an Easter service.

Easter commemorates an event that never even happened. 'Eesaa Alayhis Salaam was never crucified, he did not die nor was he raised from the dead.

It really is painful when Muslims find nothing wrong with non-Muslims commiting shirk in a masjid.

[Fegemiembendy]

thsi is a probable result of "interfaith dialogue' and "Multiculturalism" , "Secular-Democracy" sort of campaign endorsed by some "muslim leaders/scholars"

[intifatry]

If it really was a masjid, then..

[asivisepo]

C'mon guys ... The Church had no place to celebrate their holiest festival. Muslims just helped them. Allah sees your intentions of a deed. Allah can judge better than you guys so please don't issue fatwas about it being bad or haram etc ...

This news gave some positive coverage to Islam ..... This fact alone makes this deed a very noble one.

[kubekniekubek]

They say true dreams is one of 46 parts prophecy. The priest had a dream they would be celebrating in a mosque? Does this prophecy part about true dreams also include non-muslims?

[Extinimot]

C'mon guys ... The Church had no place to celebrate their holiest festival. Muslims just helped them. Allah sees your intentions of a deed. Allah can judge better than you guys so please don't issue fatwas about it being bad or haram etc ...

This news gave some positive coverage to Islam ..... This fact alone makes this deed a very noble one.

The holiest festivals of Aztecs, Mayans, etc. involved cutting the beating heart out of a living person, if they were still around would it be proper to let them do that in a Masjid?

[fenter1]

C'mon guys ... The Church had no place to celebrate their holiest festival. Muslims just helped them. Allah sees your intentions of a deed. Allah can judge better than you guys so please don't issue fatwas about it being bad or haram etc ...

This news gave some positive coverage to Islam ..... This fact alone makes this deed a very noble one.

You're willing to compromise on the deen for the sake of "positive coverage"? There's a problem with the Christians even coming into a masjid due to the issue of purity (state of janabah and haaidh), let alone worshiping their polytheistic god. You see nothing wrong with someone insulting the oneness of Allah in his very house???

[Keeriewof]

They did not hold the service in the mosque itself, they held it in the community hall. Insha'Allah this can be viewed as dawah.

Loonwatch

[Keeriewof]

Website for the mosque. Non-sectarian, "Muslim" masjid:

What makes SALAM unique?
...
Second: SALAM has transcended sectarianism. Whenever we are asked whether our center is a Sunni or a Shiite Masjid; our response is that this is simply a “Muslim” Masjid.
...

[xIuvyAuT]

The holiest festivals of Aztecs, Mayans, etc. involved cutting the beating heart out of a living person, if they were still around would it be proper to let them do that in a Masjid?

Arif you made my day.
Wassalam

[KongoSan]

Salaam,

Is it haraam by consensus for non-Muslims to pray in a masjid? What have the ulama said about this? Seriously does anyone know?

Also, is it haraam by consensus for Muslims to pray inside a non-muslim temple, church, etc? I know that alot of Muslim communities started off in the west by praying in the churches here. So is it allowed?

[slimfifa]

'I know that alot of Muslim communities started off in the west by praying in the churches here.'

ASA,

We have a community masjid in my town that was a Roman Catholic church, it still looks like the church (structure, colour tinted windows) from the outside (over 250 years old building.) Needless to say all christian pictures, symbols etc. were removed inside.