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
Journey of MIDNIGHT SUN the Shazia Afzal Illustrated by Aliya Ghare ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS
August 2010 INUVIK 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle
Our mosque is too small for us said the people of Inuvik But it was very expensive to build a bigger one so far north
