Sada-e-Watan Sydney ™
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Opening Ceremony of Islamic Library in Sydney
A long overdue dream of the community
finally became reality. Muhammadi Welfare Association was founded in 1987. It
started holding its functions and doing its community work by hiring public
schools in Sydney. Later on the association was housed in a small dwelling in
Campsie before it bought a bigger piece of land in Granville South. The
association undertook various religious and cultural activities especially for
the youth for example youth camps, written competitions, quizzes and speech
contests etc. The youth camp organized in Mt Kerra near Wollongong still echoes
in the brains of our youth as it has left indelible memories.
One of the most important missing things was having a library as a community
resource place. Thank God it has been done by opening a library on the premises
of the community centre at 419 Blaxcell Street Granville South, Sydney. More or less 500
hundred books were imported while about 100 collected locally. This is the first
initiative. More books, magazine Videos and CDS are expected to be added to the
present resources.
The library shall be opened before and after every function day in the centre
and occasionally on weekends. An opening ceremony took place on the 30th of
July. Various religious leaders and a reasonably good number of the community leaders from
different backgrounds including MWA community members participated. Mr. Zawar Shah
thanked the participants particularly the Ulema. It was followed by a brief
speech by Dr Sheikh Mansour Leghaei. The formal opening was done by his eminence
Syed Musvi by cutting the ribbon for the library. He was assisted by two
students of Abu Talib Islamic school Shan-e-Hasan Jaffery and Saira Zaidi. Zohr prayer was offered before the ceremony and lunch was served after it.
For
more details for the library, Please Contact the members of the Library Trust:
Imran Naziri: 0405129786, Qasim Ahmedi: 0404157751, Zawar Shah:
0410650366
