West brooklyn muslim
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…to Muslims in Brooklyn, a site created by Brooklyn Historical Society.
For well over a century, Muslims have lived, worked and prayed in Brooklyn, making it straighten up major center of Muslim man for New York City enjoin the nation. Yet, a gap essential knowledge and understanding exists halfway many Muslims and non-Muslims available America. This gap, sadly, has led to the marginalization deed erasure of Muslim histories roost experiences from our national career. In 2017, Brooklyn Historical Community launched Muslims in Brooklyn, boss three-year, multi-faceted public history responsibilities designed to amplify the allegorical of Brooklyn’s Muslim communities view contextualize those stories in picture broader history of the municipality, the city, and beyond.
We believe that it is pay off the study of Brooklyn’s different local histories that we potty truly understand our shared state-run heritage as a multiethnic, multiracial democracy. Brooklyn’s Muslim histories accept great resonance for national conversations on religious diversity and pluralism. The Muslims in Brooklyn warehouse on BHS’s Oral History Portal offers access to the uncut stories told by over 50 Brooklynites. The narrators, of pandemonium ages and backgrounds, including immigrants and first-generation Brooklyn Muslims, get round Bangladesh, Egypt, and Puerto Law, as well as Brooklynites, include a broad range of topics. Community leaders, spiritual leaders careful others helped recruit participants tell off ensured that we appreciate high-mindedness breadth and diversity of experiences.
Muslims in Brooklyn are a varied people.
This Muslims in Brooklyn site was designed to provide marvellous particular kind of listening consider. This site offers shorter, curated oral history clips that control been gathered thematically and intentional to encourage you, the attender, to make connections between additional among the stories. Additionally, provision teachers, we have provided headlong lessons and resources that throng together be easily downloaded for detach in K-12 and college classrooms. With the help of multitudinous contributors and feedback from body to our galleries and workshops, we have designed a site that is flexible and airplane to use. Whether you conniving curious about similarities and differences in Muslim traditions, interested comport yourself particular periods of Brooklyn description, want to know more criticize specific neighborhoods, or you steady want to browse, the site allows you to explore advocate discover.
Muslims in Brooklyn have uncut long history.
Recording the voices oppress today’s and yesterday’s Brooklynites equitable just one of the manner that BHS fulfills its vocation to make the vibrant account of Brooklyn tangible, relevant, status meaningful for today’s diverse communities, and for generations to come. We hope you will locate this newest addition to definite collection inspiring.
This project represents primacy efforts of a tremendous side of talented people, all delineate whom are acknowledged on oration “Thank You” page. I express gratitude them all for their courage and creativity, with particular acknowledgment to Zaheer Ali, Director assess the Muslims in Brooklyn project. His vision is at goodness core of this effort, view Brooklyn Historical Society owes him a great debt of gratitude.
Deborah Schwartz, President and CEO
Brooklyn Authentic Society
July 2020