A specific use permit was approved 4-0 Tuesday for a one-story fellowship hall addition to a mosque. Additional parking will also be provided for the Islamic Society of Edmond and North American Islamic Trust, Inc. Four surrounding land owners spoke in favor of the...
Before Sunday prayer service, raw bacon was discovered by a child at a local mosque. “I always felt safe here. I always felt it was a comfortable place to go,” Adam Soltani, CAIR executive director, said. On Sunday, vandals tossed bacon along the doorway of an Edmond...
(EDMOND, OK, 4/12/2015) — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate an incident of vandalism targeting a mosque in that state as a possible hate crime....
The Islamic Society of Tulsa has purchased 15 acres in south Broken Arrow for a possible future mosque. The parcel is on the east side of 129th East Avenue, just south of the Creek Turnpike, said Masood Kasim, chairman of the society. Kasim said the Islamic Society...
Parking and the size of a fellowship activity building proposed to be built next to the Islamic Society of Edmond’s mosque were the reasons city council members gave as they turned down the request for a specific use permit. The 8,307-square-foot addition would...
