• Tagged Brampton, Eid Al Fitr, Gage Park, Patrick Brown, Peel Region, Ramadan 2023

The City of Brampton in Peel Region, Ontario, hosted for their first time ever, an Official City-wide Eid Celebration. This public Eid Al Fitr Celebration took place in downtown Brampton’s oldest park, Gage Park.

The inaugural program filled its three hour afternoon schedule with a busy slate of Performers, Speakers, Whirling Dervishes, Halal Food Trucks, plus Children’s Games. Rounding out the afternoon included Cultural Displays, Urdu and Punjabi Naats, and face painting for kids. Additionally, numerous families also explored and enjoyed the pair of Eid Labyrinths drawn in chalk.

This Community Eid was hosted by the City of Brampton on Sunday April 23 2023, the Third Day of Eid of Al Fitr 1444, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

• Tagged Amira Elghawaby, Islamophobia, LdnOnt, London Ontario, Official Community Visit, Our London Family

Canada’s anti-Islamophobia representative began an official tour of Community Visits with her first stop being London, Ontario, where a Muslim family was killed in June 2021 in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack.

The weekend before Ramadan, March 18 & 19 2023, Amira Elghawaby met with about 200 members of London’s Muslim community. — HïMY SYeD

“The call for the creation of a special office to combat Islamophobia came from Muslim communities across Canada, but most strongly from London Muslim communities,”

“I knew that I had to come to London.” — Amira Elghawaby

• Tagged Green Square Campaign, Islamophobia, January 29, Our London Family, Quebec City Mosque Attack, We Are IMO

Photographies de partout au Canada partagées en cette Journée nationale de commémoration de l’attaque de la mosquée de Québec et d’action contre l’islamophobie. En souvenir de six musulmans qui nous ont été enlevés à Québec, un à Etobicoke et quatre à London, en Ontario. Images également de la campagne du carré vert.

S’il n’y a pas d’enregistrement, il n’y a pas d’histoire, cela ne s’est pas produit. Cet essai photographique est mon récit de ce qui s’est passé le samedi 29 janvier 2022. — HïMY SYeD

Photographs from around Canada being shared on this National Day of Remembrance of the Québec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia. Remembering six Muslims who were taken from us in Québec City, one in Etobicoke, and four in London, Ontario. Images also of the Green Square Campaign.

If there is no record, there is no history, it didn’t happen. This Photographic Essay is my record of what happened on Saturday January 29 2022. — HïMY SYeD

• Tagged Canada, Canadian Muslims, COVID 19, First Ten Days, Pandemic, Ramadan 2021, Ramadan At Home

33 Photographs from the First 10 days of Ramadan 2021. This is the second year of the Pandemic. Masjids are closed. Stay-at-Home orders are in effect. Congregational prayers may be limited to 10 at most. Lockdowns with varying rules depending on city and province have created an uneven Ramadan experience for many Canadian Muslims. With an intention to help re-connect us with Ramadan and fellow Muslims, here is a glimpse of the First 10 Days of Ramadan 2021. Photos are from the Toronto Metropolitan Area, from around Canada, from around The Muslim World.

InshAllah, we’ll post a collection of photographs from the middle 10 days of Ramadan 2021. If you wish to submit your Ramadan photos, tweet us @30Masjids or leave a comment on this post. — HiMY SYeD

• Tagged Albanian Muslim Society of Toronto, Dundas Street Mosque, Jami Mosque, Jane's Walk, The Junction

The History of Muslims in Toronto – A Special December Jane’s Walk took place on Sunday December 20 2015. About 60 people began the walk in Bloor West Village, starting from in front of Runnymede Station. The walk continued north into The Junction, east through the West Bend neighbourhood, north-east of High Park, ultimately winding into Roncesvalles Village and arriving at Jami Mosque. At least one third of the people stayed until the very end. Each picture in this collection of 49 photographs was captured by Brampton Based Professional Photographer, Herman Custodio.

• Tagged #StandWithMuslimsTO, Flemingdon Park, Grenoble Public School, North York

Anti-Racism Solidarity March in Flemingdon Park arrives at Grenoble Public School on Friday November 20 2015.
Recent events of Racism against muslims include a mom on her way to pick up her child at Grenoble Public School. This mom was physically attacked, mugged, and verbally assaulted by two unknown men. This Solidarity March was the community’s answer to this and other recent hate crimes
This is a collection of 17 photographs by HiMY SYeD.

• Tagged London Ontario, Ontario, Southwestern Ontario

Scenes from the first leg of 30Masjids Ontario across Southwestern Ontario. Photographs from Toronto, London, Chatham, and Windsor. Photos by HiMY SYeD, Mike Wise, and Aksa Mahmood. ( 34 Photos Total )

• Tagged Bicycles, bikeTO, Brampton, Canadian Tire, cities, hajj, Madinah, Makkah, mobility, Toronto, umrah

All over the world Muslims ride bicycles in their daily lives for worldly reasons as well as for religious reasons like reaching distant Masjids.

The first three Madinah photographs are from Cape Town residents Nathim Cairncross and Imtiyaz Ahmad Haron who spent nine months in 2010 biking across Africa to reach Makkah and perform the Hajj.

The remaining Makkah and Madinah bicycle photographs were taken during my Umrah trip in May and June of 2011.

Currently during Ramadan 2012, I am visiting 30 Masjids in 30 Days in the Greater Toronto Area.

On Day 13, Wednesday August 1 2012, sometime before sunrise, my bicycle was stolen from in front of Masjid Toronto.

The media got wind of this and it made the news.

Canadian Tire stepped up and offered to replace the stolen bicycle with a new one.

During Umrah last year, I captured as many bicycle photographs as possible hoping to publish them once I got home.

Please forgive the quality of many of the photos, they were taken with my Blackberry. — HiMY SYeD (64 photos total).

• Tagged 30Masjids, First Ten Days

33 photographs from the first 10 days of Ramadan. Photos are from the Greater Toronto Area captured during 30masjids.ca‘s visits to break the daily fast in a different masjid everyday . All photos have appeared before in one of the daily posts on the main 30masjids.ca website. They are presented here as a flavour of the First Ten Days of Ramadan around Toronto. InshAllah, we’ll post a collection of photographs from the middle 10 days of Ramadan 2012. If you wish to submit your Ramadan photos, tweet us @30Masjids or leave a comment on this post. — HiMY SYeD

• Tagged Canadian Sufi Cultural Centre, Etobicoke, Turkish Tiles

The Story of Turkish Ceramic Tiles and how they arrived in the Canadian Sufi Cultural Centre via New York City and 15 years. As told by Tevfik Baba. 15 years ago, 126 boxes of Turkish Ceramic Tiles were brought one by one via American Sufi Travellers visiting Istanbul from New York City and beyond. The 126 boxes intended home was to be Sufi Centre in Toronto. At the time, no one knew which building would be purchased and if the number of tiles would be enough. Miraculously, they had exactly the number of Turkish Tiles needed to adorn the Canadian Sufi Cultural Centre which you see in these photographs. The Sufi Centre is located at 274 Birmingham Street at Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. (15 photos total) — HiMY SYeD