When Zariah Horton stepped to the front of a mosque in Los Angeles last year and prepared to address a congregation of Muslim women, she was assuming a position she never imagined being in. She had ...

In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered mosque in Berkeley, California, announced her decision to close the place of worship due to diminishing resources and ...

One Muslim woman in California has made history by starting the first all-female mosque in the United States. It opened last week in Los Angeles. The Women's Mosque was hosted in a modest, multifaith ...

Just a few years ago, a woman's place in the mosque was a fringe issue. Now, a younger generation is using social media to draw attention to what... Muslim Women Challenge American Mosques: 'Now Is ...

(RNS) — Author Tazeen M. Ali said the Women’s Mosque of America ‘has global implications for how we study Islam.’ LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Tazeen M. Ali was a graduate student in Boston when she first ...

On Friday, when a mosque in the North-east allowed women to pray alongside men, it was hailed as a dream come true for women's groups that have been demanding the right for decades. In Shillong, where ...

Then several young Muslim women privately confided in Tricia Pethic, 22, the only woman on the mosque board of directors. They found it difficult to fully engage in prayer guided only by a disembodied ...

This is a view of the women's mosque in the Al Mujadilah Centre educational complex in Doha: The Qibla wall, facing Mecca and clad in travertine, curves outwards at ...

(RNS) — In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered mosque in Berkeley, California, announced her decision to close the place of worship due to diminishing resources ...