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 \u2013 a first for Northern Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants said the trees symbolized the house of worship\u2019s history-making role in the Magnolia State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt will be open for everybody \u2013 everybody who wants to know who we are,\u201d says Nadera Abuirshaid, a resident of Southaven and the wife of one of the mosque\u2019s co-founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mosque will have capacity for roughly 150 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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