Journey of the Midnight Sun

Journey of the Midnight Sun — page 1
In 2010 the Zubaidah Tallab Foundation in Winnipeg raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik one of the most northern towns in Canada’s Arctic A small Muslim community there had been using a cramped trailer for their services but it was much too small for the growing community and there was no space for women and children to pray The mosque traveled more than 4,000 kilometers on a trip fraught with poor weather heavy traffic narrow bridges and a deadline to get on the last barge heading up the Mackenzie River before the first winter freeze This is the story of the Journey of the M I DNIGHT SUN Shazia Afzal Illustrated by Aliya Ghare