Somali Mosque Thread

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Berbera Mosque

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Isbhaheysiga Mosque Mogadishu

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Zeylac

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Somewhere in SL please XX and Co if u know this place magaca inoo sheegaa

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very beautiful

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Berbera

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Mowlaca Macalin Nuur Maxamed Siyaad

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Graduation stories: Osman Nur designs unique mosque to honor his father

 

LAWRENCE — To get to know the Somali father he left when he was just a child, Osman Nur needed the ‘excuse’ of his University of Kansas McNair Scholars Program research project.

 

Nur, his mother Madina Sheikh, three older brothers and an older sister fled their native Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1991 at the start of the Somali Civil War. His father Aabow Mo’alin Nur, a teacher, religious leader, community organizer and self-taught architect, stayed.

 

He’s the reason I’m in school,” Nur said. “I really didn’t like school that much. Growing up, I didn’t go to school. Everything I’ve accomplished in school is because of him. We’d talk on the phone only about once a month because it was so expensive. Before he even asked how I was, he’d ask about my education and how I was doing, which kept pushing me to do better, demanding I take school seriously. He didn’t allow me to ask questions about him. He never liked people writing about him.”

 

Of leaving Somalia, Nur said, “Survival was the main thing, living from hour to hour, just getting away from the war. We were just happy to be alive.” Family members migrated to Kenya, where they stayed until 1998. They received political asylum and were able to come to the United States in 1999 through the sponsorship of an older sister, Hamsa Mohamed, a primary care physician in Saginaw, Mich.

 

“The only thing we knew about America was from Hollywood movies,” Nur said. No one in the family spoke English. They first went to a large Somali community in Rochester, Minn., then moved to Overland Park in summer 2002. Nur graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School in spring 2003, then began attending KU in fall 2003. His mother has since moved back to Rochester.

 

http://www.news.ku.edu/2010/may/7/nur.shtml

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Arbaca Rukun Mosque in Muqdisho.

 

Berbera Mosque.

 

 

 

Xamarweyne Muqdisho.

 

Las anod Mosque.

 

 

Hargeysa.

 

Sheekh Biyamaalow Mosque in Muqdisho.

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Beautiful Mosques

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Burco Mosque

 

 

http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=2741007&with_photo_id=18271139&order=date_desc

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Beautiful thread. Keep them coming.