Toronto College Muslims Cheer Prayer Room
Enjoying a welcoming atmosphere, Muslim students at Toronto’s Emmanuel College are celebrating their new prayer space and ablution facility, reflecting the university’s efforts to accommodate its increasing Muslim students and enrich interfaith relations in and out the campus.
“It’s beautiful,” Hasna Egal, a fourth-year neuroscience student, told The Varsity, university of Toronto’s student newspaper, on Monday, February 11.
“The Muslim prayer space is welcoming, clean and very quiet.”
The new prayer space and ablutions facility in Emmanuel College were officially opened on January 22.
The Canadian Jaffari Muslim Foundation, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, the Islamic Institute of Toronto, the Muslim Chaplaincy, and the Muslim Students Association at U of T all helped cover the $25,000 cost of the prayer space.
The cost of the $75,000 ablutions facility was shared by Emmanuel College and Victoria College.
“I think it’s going really well — the space is very beautiful. The whole space fills up every prayer time, but what’s also really cool is that you can find people studying there and using it as a hangout space,” Amjad Tarsin, U of T’s first Muslim chaplain, said.
Though designed for Muslim prayers, Muslim students welcomed all other faiths to join and attend prayers.
“It’s definitely inclusive and I wouldn’t see why not. Students are welcome to observe prayers,” Tarsin said.
“I don’t think it hurts to have a few places around campus for prayer and worship. It’s what students need.”
Source: On Islam
“The Muslim prayer space is welcoming, clean and very quiet.”
The new prayer space and ablutions facility in Emmanuel College were officially opened on January 22.
The Canadian Jaffari Muslim Foundation, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, the Islamic Institute of Toronto, the Muslim Chaplaincy, and the Muslim Students Association at U of T all helped cover the $25,000 cost of the prayer space.
The cost of the $75,000 ablutions facility was shared by Emmanuel College and Victoria College.
“I think it’s going really well — the space is very beautiful. The whole space fills up every prayer time, but what’s also really cool is that you can find people studying there and using it as a hangout space,” Amjad Tarsin, U of T’s first Muslim chaplain, said.
Though designed for Muslim prayers, Muslim students welcomed all other faiths to join and attend prayers.
“It’s definitely inclusive and I wouldn’t see why not. Students are welcome to observe prayers,” Tarsin said.
“I don’t think it hurts to have a few places around campus for prayer and worship. It’s what students need.”
Source: On Islam
