Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Nov 16, 2025.
Shared faith and service build lasting communities
“Let me put some of my effort and talent for the community.”
In one sentence
The mosque’s history shows that shared faith, attachment, and service build a lasting community legacy for future generations.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Introduces the Islamic history month photo competition and the London Muslim Mosque’s place in Canadian Muslim history.
- Shares early local Muslim graves and pioneer stories as reminders to preserve and pass on communal memory.
- Recounts the mosque’s 1957 house purchase, fire, purpose-built reconstruction, school expansion, and property assembly.
- Connects mosque attachment, diverse community life, and young people’s memories to the community’s flourishing.
- Highlights how photographers, architects, and volunteers use their talents to preserve history and serve the mosque.
Try this week
Strengthen your attachment to the mosque and participate in its community life.
Use your time, professional skills, or talents to serve the community.
Share mosque history and stories with younger generations.
Support mosque projects such as carpet replacement, qibla-area redesign, and mortuary-service expansion.
Pray for the community’s pioneers and those buried in its historic graves.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“And any community who find the mosque, you find the Quran, you find the Eden, that community will flourish.”
“Let me put some of my effort and talent for the community.”
“Whenever there's a project, when something lasts as an ongoing charity, like building a mosque, expansion of a mosque, doing whatever, we need people to come forward.”
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