Title: There are an estimated 6 million Muslims in America.
1Finding Unity in Our DiversityImages from the
City of Angels
Center for Religion and Civic Culture
University of Southern California www.usc.edu/crc
c e-mail crcc_at_usc.edu Photographs by Jerry
Berndt
2New Horizon School, Los Angeles
3There are an estimated7 million Muslimsin
America.
4New Horizon School, Los Angeles
5Muslims are ethnically diverse.
- 36 are South Asian.
- 30 are African American.
- 25 are Middle Eastern (including Arabs).
- 9 are white and other.
6Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab, Los Angeles
7Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab, Los Angeles
8Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab, Los Angeles
970 of mosques provide some type of assistance
to the needy.
10UMMA Free Clinic, Los Angeles
11Over half of mosques have food pantries,
soup kitchens, or food collection for the poor.
12Islam, the religion of tolerance, holds the
human soul in high esteem, and considers the
attack against human beings a grave sin.
Sheikh Yusuf Al-QaradawiMuslim Scholar
13Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab, Los Angeles
14Los Angeles is a microcosm of the worlds
religions.
15There are more than 10,000 congregations in L.A.,
including
- 30 Hindu temples120 Buddhist temples58 mosques.
16O Lord, help us in our distress. Keep us united
as people of diverse faiths, colors and races.
Dr. Muzammil H. SiddiqiNational Day of Prayer
and RemembranceNational Cathedral Service
17Masjid Omar ibn Al-Khattab, Los Angeles
18First African American Episcopal Church, Los
Angeles
19St. Vincent Catholic Church, Los Angeles
20Oriental Mission Church, Los Angeles
21St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Los
Angeles
22Sikh youth class at Vermont Gurdwara, Los Angeles
23Muhammad Mosque No. 27, Los Angeles
24Buddhist Services at the Khemara Buddhikaram,
Long Beach, CA
25Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu Temple,
Whittier, CA
26Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA
27Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills, CA
28Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights, CA
29Sikh services at Vermont Gurdwara, Los Angeles
30Armenian Martyrs Day Ceremony, Montebello, CA
31St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, Los Angeles
32- Photographs by Jerry Berndt
- Courtesy of the Center for Religion and Civic
Culture - University of Southern California
- www.usc.edu/crcc
- Sources
- Ihsan Bagby, Paul M. Perl, Bryan T. Froehle, The
Mosque in America A National Portrait, April 26,
2001, Council on American-Islamic Relations,
Washington, D.C. - IDEA Ministries, 1997
- Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC),
www.mpac.org