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The group in charge of constructing Saskatoon’s first purpose-built mosque wants it to be more than just a place of worship.

For Shamoon Rashid, that means spreading awareness of what the mosque and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community have to offer.

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“A mosque is a place of worship for anyone who worships one God,” he said. “A lot of people don’t know that they are welcome to come.”

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Rashid, the president of the north chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Saskatoon, said the mosque will be a “unique structure” for Saskatoon and the province once it’s completed.

“It’s going to be the centre for the community here in Saskatoon,” Rashid said. “We’ve got classrooms, we’ve got a multi-purpose hall where people can play and also have banquet events, then you’ve got the prayer hall; this would basically be the nucleus for the community.”

Rashid said while the new mosque will be a major centre for the Muslim community, he hopes it would also be an important part of the community at large.