In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered mosque in Berkeley, California, announced her decision to close the place of worship due to diminishing resources and ...

Just a few years ago, a woman's place in the mosque was a fringe issue. Now, a younger generation is using social media to draw attention to what... Muslim Women Challenge American Mosques: 'Now Is ...

Then several young Muslim women privately confided in Tricia Pethic, 22, the only woman on the mosque board of directors. They found it difficult to fully engage in prayer guided only by a disembodied ...

(RNS) — Author Tazeen M. Ali said the Women’s Mosque of America ‘has global implications for how we study Islam.’ LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Tazeen M. Ali was a graduate student in Boston when she first ...

As Ramadan draws to a close, Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Fitr to mark the end of a month of fasting from dusk till dawn and additional acts of worship. On Eid, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After the traditional call to prayer, Edina Lekovic stood in front of some 150 women seated on the floor at an interfaith center in Los Angeles, and delivered a sermon, a role ...

This is a view of the women's mosque in the Al Mujadilah Centre educational complex in Doha: The Qibla wall, facing Mecca and clad in travertine, curves outwards at ...

Maznavi, a filmmaker, said women-only spaces have been part of Islamic history for generations and still exist in China, Yemen and Syria. In the United States, nearly all mosques separate the sexes.

A VIDEO has gone viral showing a man intruding into a women's prayer area at a mosque and stealing two handbags while the ...

(RNS) — In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered mosque in Berkeley, California, announced her decision to close the place of worship due to diminishing resources ...