Is This One of America’s First Mosques? | American Muslims: A History Revealed

Among the millions of immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria. In this film, host Aymann Ismail tells the story of two of these people, a woman named Mary Juma and her husband Hassen who homesteaded...

26 min - Religion & Belief - PBS

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