One of the world’s most northerly mosques has opened in Inuvik, N.W.T., where the Arctic town’s growing Muslim community is celebrating its new place of worship.

Affectionately being dubbed “the little mosque on the tundra,” Inuvik’s mosque and community centre officially opened at a ceremony Wednesday afternoon.

The beige mosque has made a 4,000-kilometre journey by road and river from Manitoba, where it was built, through two provinces and the Northwest Territories to the Arctic town.

While not the first mosque in Inuvik, a town of about 3,200 people, the new building is a significant improvement from the small one-bedroom trailer local Muslims prayed in during the past decade.

“It’s a very personal achievement for all of us because we were in a small building, the old one, and now we have this one,” Ahmed al-Khalaf, who helped organize fundraising efforts for the mosque, told CBC News.   »»» CBC News (Canada)

This mosque is 4 643 km from Ground Zero in New York. Is that far enough away?

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