Day 3: Malcolm X’s mosque

24
Aug
By Aman and Bassam | 3 Comments »

Today we went to the Malcom Shabazz Cultural Center on W. 116th Street in Harlem (the photo I took was crappy, so I borrowed one from our friends at Salatomatic.com). At one point in time this was a casino that soon became a full-fledged mosque dedicated to Muslim pioneer Malcom X.

The masjid volunteers kindly served us water with dates wrapped in foil. It was a very intimate gathering. They offered food to us, but we felt bad because we rolled up in there unannounced and didn’t want to freeload.

For dinner, Bassam and I ate at Tawaa, this Indian restaurant at 168th and Broadway. I had some chicken dosa- freakin amazing.

What made me laugh was the menu, the place is halal but the menu says “We served halal food.” As if one day they decided to call it quits on this whole halal thing.

Yes, I’m easily amused.

Enjoyed This Post? Share with others:

twitter! | stumble | del.icio.us |

Comments

3
  1. November 7th, 2009 | Anonymous says:

    I need interior views of this mosque to write an essay for my architecture history class. I went to visit the mosque and they were very mysterious and wouldn’t let me go inside. Very rude.

    [Reply]

  2. November 13th, 2009 | cobzzbhubz says:

    CX2OU7 lmezukteoqpk, [url=http://arqqkvfmjugh.com/]arqqkvfmjugh[/url], [link=http://srwrcthgxuzj.com/]srwrcthgxuzj[/link], http://ivowwrhrtffl.com/

    [Reply]

  3. August 15th, 2010 | Zenaira says:

    “What made me laugh was the menu, the place is halal but the menu says “We served halal food.” As if one day they decided to call it quits on this whole halal thing.” LOL gold!

    [Reply]

RSS feed for coments on this post
Trackback URL

Leave a comment

  • Food For Thought

  • tweet RSS
  • 30 Mosques Twitter Feed