by Melissa Aho (Author)

What makes a mosque a mosque? Is it just a place where Muslims come together to pray? Does the location or the architectural design matter? Or is it the "hopes, dreams and desires of many people," which was spoken of at the 2006 groundbreaking that marked the renovation and expansion of the Masjid An-Nur? In Minnesota, mosques fall into one of four different categories. This book is a short history of the mosque in Minnesota.