Imam Kifah Mustapha, director of The Prayer Center in Orland Park, Illinois, on Feb. 27, 2024. Mustafa Hussain for HuffPost ORLAND PARK, Ill. — Kifah Mustapha, the imam at Orland Park Prayer Center, ...

Citing a growing Muslim population in South Florida, an Islamic Center wants to open a cemetery that adheres to the religion’s specific burial rites on a seven-acre plot in the Redland. “As this ...

DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) — On the site of a long-idle dairy farm, leaders of a local mosque hope to build a final resting place for about 500 Muslim families to the dismay of many residents of this quaint ...

When Newsday featured a story in 2011 about Nayyar Imam’s hunt for Long Island acreage to establish a Muslim cemetery, the demand was serious, but not a crisis. But today that need is still unmet, ...

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A contentious proposal to build a Muslim cemetery in a Massachusetts town has cleared an important hurdle with approval from the community's zoning board. The Telegram & Gazette reports that Dudley's ...

New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer is temporarily lifting a cease-and-desist order for the first Islamic cemetery in Delaware. The move clears the way for burying an infant. Members of the Muslim ...

The Muslim community in the Iowa City area is growing quickly and along with that growth so is the need for a new Islamic cemetery, mosque leaders say. The Iowa City Mosque spent years establishing ...

A Muslim cemetery near Port Penn that was ordered closed last month will be allowed to bury one person on a special request Friday, New Castle County officials said Wednesday. The Muslim Cemetery of ...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) -- A new cemetery in New Castle County, Delaware has caused quite a controversy over the past few weeks. But after a meeting with county officials Wednesday, all parties ...

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a Massachusetts town violated the civil rights of an Islamic group when officials there rejected plans for a Muslim cemetery. U.S. Attorney ...