Islam Course Travels to Mosque

Students enrolled in the PHRE Islam course, taught by Mark Appold, recently took part in an all-day field trip to the Daar-ul-Islam Masjid in St. Louis.

The mosque is the largest in the St. Louis area and includes a day school for elementary-level children. After lunch in the Pakistan Saffron Restaurant, students toured the main area of the mosque and noted characteristic architectural features of the building. The field trip continued with an observation of the noon prayer service and a two-hour question and answer discussion with Sister Maysa, visitation coordinator.


Al-Salam Day School principal Mudir Abdul-Mun’im Jitmoud also gave the students a tour of his building. Both he and his wife were Truman alumni from the early 1980s and former students of Appold.


For more information about the Islam course, contact Appold at mappold@truman.edu.