Masjid Monday: My beloved Kumamoto Masjid
*I will make another post regarding specific/objective information regarding Kumamoto Mosque, so stay tuned ^^ Kumamoto Mosque (Kumamoto Masjid) was a very special place for me while I lived in Kumamoto prefecture and still is. As soon as I got that email notifying me of my placement in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, one of the very first things I did was google if there was a Mosque nearby. Fortunately, there was a Mosque in the capital, about 1.5 hours away from where I lived. I emailed the contact number given on the website, and received a reply from one of the *brothers that there was a *sisters' yahoo group (sisters and brothers is how we refer to our fellow Muslims ^^). I was put in contact with an Indonesian sister. She told me that there were a number of sisters at the Mosque, including a Malaysian sister, and that they were looking forward to meeting me. All of them lived close to the Masjid and Kumamoto University, where many of them went to...