A Saudi journalist decided to build a mosque in the extreme north of Canada for Muslims who have for long had a small wooden hut for a place of worship. Its name will be The Mosque at the End of the World.
In 10 days’ time, a mosque will be erected in the Canadian town of Inuvik, 200 kilometers from the North Pole. The northwestern town, with a population of 3,700, is home to 75-80 Muslims, mostly Arabs, who have no place to pray except a mobile hut that can only take half of them.
In 10 days’ time, a mosque will be erected in the Canadian town of Inuvik, 200 kilometers from the North Pole. The northwestern town, with a population of 3,700, is home to 75-80 Muslims, mostly Arabs, who have no place to pray except a mobile hut that can only take half of them.
The town, whose name means ‘place of man’ in Eskimo language, is known for its soaring prices due to its remote location and the time it takes for goods to reach it especially during its freezing winter where the temperatures reaches 40 degrees below zero.
Building a mosque in Inuvik required a minimum of $750,000 as well as a team of experts, which was not available in the town. This is when Saudi journalist Dr. Hussein Saud Qasti came in.
Qasti, who runs a charity organization with his wife in the province of Manitoba, got wind of the frustration of Inuvik’s Muslims and decided to build them a mosque.
He collected donations from several Arabs in different parts of Canada and Iraqi engineer Ahmed al-Khalaf who lives in Inuvik. A Saudi woman, who asked for her name to be withheld, donated $190,000.
The total cost of the mosque is estimated at half a million dollars, that is $250,000 less than the cost estimated by the residents of Inuvik.
Al Arabiya contributed to the details that added to the mosque’s uniqueness when it suggested the name 'The Mosque at the End of the World'.
“I love the name,” said Qasti in a phone interview with Al Arabiya. “It reflects the geographical remoteness of the mosque.”
Building a mosque in Inuvik required a minimum of $750,000 as well as a team of experts, which was not available in the town. This is when Saudi journalist Dr. Hussein Saud Qasti came in.
Qasti, who runs a charity organization with his wife in the province of Manitoba, got wind of the frustration of Inuvik’s Muslims and decided to build them a mosque.
He collected donations from several Arabs in different parts of Canada and Iraqi engineer Ahmed al-Khalaf who lives in Inuvik. A Saudi woman, who asked for her name to be withheld, donated $190,000.
The total cost of the mosque is estimated at half a million dollars, that is $250,000 less than the cost estimated by the residents of Inuvik.
Al Arabiya contributed to the details that added to the mosque’s uniqueness when it suggested the name 'The Mosque at the End of the World'.
“I love the name,” said Qasti in a phone interview with Al Arabiya. “It reflects the geographical remoteness of the mosque.”
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Dr. Jüsten Hussain, Director General of Islamic Foundation Zubaydah said, ”This is agood plan, and unusual to the North Pole mosque, and when he was with Allah’spermission, first of its kind in North Pole is in the mosque.”
Mosque is an area of 1.554 square meters and is 185 thousand U.S. dollars worth ofconstruction, about a thousand 80 dollars in transportation costs.
“This is the longest shipment of a pre-fabricated structure since it crosses a distance of more than 4,300 kilometers and takes 45 days. We want to put it in the Guinness World Records.”
Khalaf, 37, took part in designing the mosque and Qasti, 43, took part in the construction that started in April. After the construction was completed, the 457 square meter mosque and its minaret, chairs, doors, and preacher’s platform were taken on a truck.
The truck passed by the city of Edmonton in the province of Alberta then drove slowly for an entire month where a distance of 2,900 kilometers until it reached the High River region on the banks of the Great Slave Lake where the mosque started its marine journey two weeks ago.
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