About Dar-Alhijrah Center Chicago

Dar-Alhijrah Center is a fruit of the Quran study gathering ‘Halaga’ established by a group of Sudanese immigrants to Chicago about three decades ago. The group used to meet every Tuesday in the house of one of its members to recite and study the Noble ‘Quran’. This Halaga played a significant role in shaping the Sudanese community in Chicago, as many of the great ideas that helped keep the community united originated from it.

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In 2010, the group decided to rent a facility as the members’ houses were no longer suitable to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers attending the Halaga weekly. The move to the newer facility gave the group members an excellent opportunity to expand their activities and services to include and serve the Muslim community.

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Currently, the Center provides a multifaceted service that caters to the diverse and unique needs of Muslims living in Chicago. Throughout the years, the Center has targeted its activities primarily at the African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian youth, who traditionally lacked access to Islamic services. Via its various projects and schemes, the Center strives to help the new generation of Muslim Americans channel their energies and capabilities appropriately, enabling young people to become individuals who are assets for society. The first Arabic school was established in the Center to teach the basic foundations of the Arabic language and the Quran to youth in the neighborhood. Students from more than eight countries attended this school. The responses received from the Center’s various beneficiaries and the endorsement of the Center’s priorities, Alhamdulillah, are a sign that a facilities center is an essential contribution to current Islamic services.

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Alhamdulillah, we recently purchased our building, which provides far better opportunities to serve our Muslim community. The new building is three times larger than our current Center, with six bathrooms, large halls, and many rooms that we can use for all the center activities.

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We paid $500,000 out of the $600,000 total price for our new building. As a community, we are working hard to collect funds to pay the remaining $100,000 plus money to rehab the building to complete phase one of this task. Phase two of this task is to purchase the parking lot next to our new building. This new parking lot can accommodate 30 cars, which will speed up the conversion of this new building into a Mosque.