The Muslim community of West Virginia is a most diverse vibrant community made up of well educated professionals (Doctors, Engineers, Professors, Dean, Teachers, & coaches) who maintain a lot of interactions with other Muslims & non-Muslims in peace.
The Charleston Community has about 200 paid members and its members are from around the globe.
West Virginian Muslims represent diversity (in national origin, color & languages) unparalleled by other religions because its members come from many countries such as Afghnistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Libya, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, UAE, US & others.
They all live in peace & harmony.
The center is beautiful & has brought recognition and respect for Muslims from the Charleston community at large.
For Muslim contributions to the West Virginia, see Appendix C.
The Charleston community had grown so much that the center has again become insufficient to accommodate the ever growing needs of the community especially during Ramadan, Eids & other special events.
So the center resorted to renting large other spaces to hold special events for the past few years.
Many times, the EC & the Board of Trustees has met & discussed the expansion of the existing center or purchasing a new location large enough to accommodate our growing needs.
It was decided to expand the existing center and Mr Bill Preston was initially asked to design the expansion of the center which he did but some members took too long & did nothing.
Then Br.
Dirar Ahmad, a civil engineer with the Highway Dept.
contacted another architect to redesign the expansion including a gym-basketball court, a new kitchen, 8 classrooms, a room for body washing, an office for the imam as well as a large meeting/conference room.
