Park51 Jum'ah with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: January 31, 2025
As-Salamu 'Alaykum,
Dear Brothers, Sisters, and Valued Members of our Friday Congregation,
By the Grace of Allah, we are inviting you to the Jum'ah prayer services. The khutbah will start at around 1:10 P.M. We are privileged to be having guest speaker Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as our khateeb this Friday.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the founder and president of Cordoba House, an organization dedicated to establishing a compassionate, forward thinking and pluralistic American Muslim community. He is actively engaged in outreach to moderates of all faith traditions across the world, forging connections of trust and mutual support to achieve the mission. He is the author of several books on Islam including most recently Defining Islamic Statehood: Measuring and Indexing Contemporary Muslim States and Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America.
As former Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque located in Lower Manhattan, he preached a message of understanding between people of all faith traditions. Imam Feisal has served on the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Center of New York, serves as an advisor to the Interfaith Center of New York, and is a member of the World Economic Forum Council of 100 Leaders (Islamic-West dialogue).
A leading voice of moderation, Imam Feisal has appeared regularly at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum (Davos). He has been quoted widely in leading media, including BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Washington Post, Frontline, Huffington Post, Daily Beast and Foreign Policy.
Imam Feisal has received numerous awards including the Search for Common Ground Award for Interfaith Diplomacy in 2012 and Arianna Huffington’s “2010 Game Changer” Award. Time magazine named him among the 100 most influential people of the world in April 2011 and he was listed as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010 by Foreign Policy magazine.
Born of Egyptian parentage and educated in England, Egypt, and Malaysia, Imam Feisal holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Columbia University in New York and a Master of Science in Plasma Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
It is important to read these notes before arriving to Jum'ah on Friday:
1. Location:
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
53A Chambers Street, Studio B
New York, NY 10007
2. First time visitors are required to sign-in with security in the main lobby to gain entry to the prayer space.
3. Bathrooms may be limited in the building, so we strongly recommend everyone to arrive having done their ablutions (Wudu).
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Jazakum Allahu Khairan.
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