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Ground Broken for New Mosque; First in North Mississippi

About 40 people gathered over the weekend to plant a set of Magnolia trees on a vacant 80-acre plot of land in a City of Horn Lake neighborhood. The site will eventually be transformed into a mosque and Muslim cemetery – a first for Northern Mississippi.

Participants said the trees symbolized the house of worship’s history-making role in the Magnolia State.

“It will be open for everybody – everybody who wants to know who we are,” says Nadera Abuirshaid, a resident of Southaven and the wife of one of the mosque’s co-founders.

She says when the project, called the Abraham House of God, is completed in about a year, her family will no longer have to travel 40 minutes to Memphis to attend prayer services.

The mosque will have capacity for roughly 150 people.

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