Every Friday is the weekly Islamic day for gathering praying and learning at mosques across the world. It’s no different at the Downtown Denver Islamic Center in Denver, but now they are extending an invitation to visit their mosque through their website and through their interpersonal connections to anyone who wants to see the mosque.
“Like any house of worship in America that welcomes people that try to give people, like, a sense of peace and belonging and grounding,” said Mohammad Kolila, the Imam of the Downtown Denver Islamic Center.
That sense of peace has not been tested lately, but nationwide incidents of bigotry and anti-Islamic sentiment have been on the rise, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ 2025 Civil Rights Report…