Is This One of America’s First Mosques?

Learn about the story of Mary and Hassen Juma, who were among the thousands of Muslims from Lebanon, then part of Greater Syria, arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, in these videos excerpted from Is This One of America’s First Mosques? | AMERICAN MUSLIMS: A HISTORY REVEALED. The Jumas, who homesteaded in North Dakota in the early 1900s, founded a community that constructed one of the first purpose-built mosques in the country, keeping their traditions alive while creating a new identity on the American frontier.