Okinawa Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque Project

Our Muslim brothers and sisters in Okinawa are now seeking financial assistance to build a multi-purpose Islamic Cultural Center with a built-in mosque.

The Muslim community there are looking into the possibility of getting a suitable site in Nishihara town. They have so far managed to collect about 200,000 yen, yet the first phase of the project, a mosque with a parking lot, is estimated to cost about 44 million yen.

Reasons for needing a place of their own?

• In order to be approved as a full religious body in Okinawa-ken, they should own land or a building or both land and building.
  
• The Muslim community there is diversified with international students, foreign residences, workers, American military, Japanese, etc , so they obviously need bigger space than the current Culture Room in Ryukyu Dai which they borrow occasionally.
• Double larger place is required for Jumu'ah and tarawih
• Triple larger place is required for Islamic school activities
• Four times larger place is required for Eid
  

In line with the hadith "Whoever builds a mosque, desiring thereby Allāh's pleasure, Allāh builds for him the like of it in paradise", I humbly urge all who could, to please donate to:

Postal Bank
Name: Okinawa Islamic Cultural Center
A/c no: 17010 224981

or

Bank of Okinawa, Ginowan Branch
Name: Okinawa Islamic Cultural Center
A/c no: 1391831 (SWIFT/Routing code: BOKIJPJZ)

For more information, as well as buy-haiku-book-and-donate-to-the-masjid opportunity, you can contact Kak Lela. No, she didn't ask me to post this entry, but since I already wrote one for Niigata Masjid Project, I figured why not give some publicity for Okinawa too, it's all fisabilillah, and I being an Imam's wife, know first-hand how difficult it is to get donation for a mosque here in Japan.