WASHINGTON, DC — On Friday, Aug. 21, the Senior Journalists Seminar was hosted by Masjid Muhammad and Imam Talib Shareef for lunch and the weekly Juma’h prayer service. Often called “The Nation’s Mosque,” Masjid Muhammad dates back to the 1930s and is Washington, D.C.’s oldest Muslim community. This predominantly African-American congregation has a national reputation for promoting peace, justice and interfaith dialogue.
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About This Series
From August 19 to September 10, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton will be a member of the 2015 Senior Journalists Seminar, sponsored by the East-West Center. The group is traveling from Washington, DC to Nashville and then on to Honolulu, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and finally Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan for meetings with government, religious, media, and cultural leaders and activists. Follow her travels on this blog and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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