Masjid Ibad Ar-Rahman

clean bathrooms, A/C, welcoming mosque. pioneering mosque in Durham. to find out more about this mosque history read: The Athaan in the bull city

This masjid only seems to cater to one ideology of Islam, and is not welcoming to Muslims who think beyond the Salafi mindset. They stuff the women in a crowded little corner behind a partition, I have never even seen the Imam in person. The women are also not very welcoming, they don't welcome newcomers or even smile at you. I have found a number of the talks by the Imam and others to be misogynistic, they don't realize they are preaching to women as well, and that many of us work and live respectable lives as Muslim women. He only supports the idea that women should stay at home at raise the children, this is not the kind of rhetoric that should be common in American Muslim communities. I am not comfortable attending this mosque and only recommend it for those whose perspectives jive with the Salafi method.