09/01/13: 13th Annual Conference of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars

Last Weekend- Sept. 1, 2013-, In Washington D.C.- Imam Elahi with a group of Imams and mosque representatives attended the 13th Annual Conference of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars in North America.

On Saturday, as a part of their educational tour of Washington D.C., they stopped  at the Library of Congress in Capital Hill!

The director of the library briefed the mosque leaders about the history of one of the largest libraries of the world and has more than 150 million books!

Last Sunday, September 1, 2013: Dr. Syed Syeed of ISNA, Nehad Awada of CAIR and imam Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University  were some of the guests of the Shia Imams gathering in Washington D.C.

They addressed the necessity of Muslim unity and stance against the sectarian tensions in the Middle East!