How the COVID-19 pandemic pushed some mosques to modernize
Mosques rely on the communal nature of Islam to connect to their congregation and were forced to pivot to streaming due to the pandemic.
Mosques rely on the communal nature of Islam to connect to their congregation and were forced to pivot to streaming due to the pandemic.
Toronto resident Sameer Syed, 23, pulls himself out of bed every night at 3:30 a.m. with the help of an alarm and makes his way to Baitul’ Afiyat Masjid, a small mosque on Old Kingston Road.
The call to prayer echoes within the high ceilings of Jami Mosque just east of High Park in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood. Birds begin chirping outside what was once a Presbyterian church and converted in 1969…