Journey of the Midnight Sun
(2022)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (32 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781459827622 MWT14755811, 1459827627 14755811
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

This is the true story of the journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque. In 2010 a Winnipeg-based charity raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik, one of the most northern towns in Canada's Arctic. A small but growing Muslim community there had been using a cramped trailer for their services, but there just wasn't enough space. The mosque travelled over 4,000 kilometers on a journey fraught with poor weather, incomplete bridges, narrow roads, low traffic wires and a deadline to get on the last barge heading up the Mackenzie River before the first winter freeze. But it made it just in time and is now one of the most northern mosques in the world. This beautiful picture book reminds us that the collective dream of fostering a multicultural and tolerant Canada exists and that people of all backgrounds will come together to build bridges and overcome obstacles for the greater good of their neighbors

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