Tennessee Man Starting First Full-Time Mosque in New Hampshire
Work on the building has already begun. Inside, you'll find volunteers from all different religious backgrounds coming together to make it happen.
Imam Will Coley has been studying religion for decades and converted to Islam about 10 years ago.
"Our work has always been about bringing people together," he told NBC Boston on Tuesday.
So when Shire Free Church, a local interfaith community, offered to donate a house in Keene to open a mosque, Coley decided to pick up his wife and five children and move from Tennessee.
"I saw an opportunity to do a service that would bring this community closer together and I cannot walk away from that," he said.
Coley says the doors will be open as a community center to anyone and everyone — regardless of their religion.
Coley is hopeful the mosque will be open for worship by the beginning of November.
The front part of the house on Marlborough Street will also be used as a warming center for the homeless during the cold winter months.
