Members of the Muslim community in Boston came together to celebrate their culture for the 1st Annual Cultural Festival, hosted at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, New England’s largest mosque. Saturday’s event featured food, music, fashion and crafts from around the world.
Four days after a series of explosions rocked Sri Lanka, more than 100 Sri Lankan nationals and their supporters gathered Thursday evening on the Boston Common to mourn those injured and killed.
After more than 51 people were killed in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last Friday, leaders in the Boston Muslim community and City officials have stood in solidarity with the victims.
Around 500 people attended the annual Eid al-Adha banquet hosted by the Islamic Society of Boston University Sunday evening. Attendees were greeted by a Henna station, a picture backdrop of lights and balloons, and boxes shaped like the Kaaba, a pre-Islamic monument in Mecca, filled with Hershey’s Kisses on tables scattered through Metcalf Hall.
Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson proposed the creation of an Immigrant Legal Defense Fund for Boston, according to a Wednesday press release issued by his office.
The proposed fund is designed...
Approximately 2,600 people gathered at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury Sunday evening for a special service called, “Out of Many, One: An Interfaith Call for Dignity...
Approximately 20 members of the Boston University community gathered early Wednesday afternoon for a panel, “Faith and the City,” to discuss the role of religion in modern cities.
The seminar,...
