BY JEFF DAVIS, THE STARPHOENIX: Members of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam will break ground on Saskatoon’s first ever dedicated mosque this summer, followed by another for mainstream Sunni Muslims in the coming years.
The 25,000-square-foot mosque will be built across from the Greenbryre Golf Course, just outside city limits in Corman Park near Highway 16. Topped with a 100-foot minaret, it will feature classrooms, a sports facility and separate prayer and meal halls for men and women.
Tanveer Shah, president of the north Saskatoon chapter of the local Ah-madiyya movement, said the mosque will be called Dar ur-Rehmat, or House of Blessing.
A number of local engineers from the Ahmadiyya community came together to draft plans for the mosque, with help from a student architect from Calgary.
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