Muslims in the Heartland
Muslims in the Heartland
Immigrants and refugees from countries like Congo, Togo, and Sudan who have settled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, participate in a driver's ed course hosted by a nonprofit started by St. Paul's United Methodist Church member, Mugisha Gloire, a Congolese refugee who came as a child to Iowa, on Saturday Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Mugisha Gloire, a Congolese refugee who came as a child to Iowa, holds the door open for driver's ed participants at St. Paul's United Methodist Church on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Gabriela Plasencia, originally from the Mexican state of Jalisco, holds her 4-month-old nephew Gael as he's baptized at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Altar boys and girls talk before service at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Perpetua Nsabimana, wife of the Rev. Daniel Niyonzima, prays during service at St. Paul's United Methodist Church on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Samy Yawo, center, eats sweet corn at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival as his father, Billy Yawo, right, talks with, Roger Atchou, left, a father of two from Togo, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Bob Kazimour, second from left, talks with the Rev. Aaron Junge after Mass at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Five men from China, Benin, Congo, Togo and Sudan, and a Guatemalan woman and her son, take a citizenship class at The Catherine McAuley Center, founded by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy order, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Mohamed Mahmoud, right, helps Afghan refugee Faroz Waziri, left, and his son select deserts at the halal grocery store he opened in 2022 after immigrating from Sudan on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Roger Atchou, center, a father of two from Togo volunteers at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Bienvenue D'Almeida, who applied for and won the so-called green card lottery, a program for countries with low rates of emigration to the United States, makes funnel cake and deep-fried Snickers bars at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Chloe Mutombo, right, daughter of immigrant parents from Congo, volunteers at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
Clarisse Mutombo, left, poses for a portrait with her husband and St. Jude Catholic Church parish council member, Martin Mutombo, both immigrants from Congo, at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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The Rev. Daniel Niyonzima, a refugee from Burundi who arrived in the United States with his wife 20 years ago, prays with congregants in Kirundi, one of Burundi's languages, during service at St. Paul's United Methodist Church on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Faroz Waziri and his wife Mena, both refugees from Afghanistan who settled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, roughly 10 years ago, hold hands on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
"The Mother Mosque of America," completed in 1934, was the first mosque built from the ground up in the United States, seen on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapid, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims in the Heartland
An old photo shows Fatima Igram Smejkal sitting with children whose families had immigrated to the United States from present-day Lebanon in the early 1900s, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Fatima Igram Smejkal, whose family immigrated from present-day Lebanon to the United States in the early 1900s, stands beside her husband's grave in the Muslim National Cemetery, established in the 1940s, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Children play outside after Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Two young girls stand together outside of the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids after Friday prayer on Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Faroz Waziri, left, helps his son decide on a piece of baklava from a halal grocery store owned by Mohamed Mahmoud, right, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Muslims attend Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Families attend Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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A woman prays at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Families attend Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Community members talk after Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Community members talk after Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Imam Taha Tawil of "The Mother Mosque of America" discusses the building's long history in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Fatima Igram Smejkal, whose family immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in the early 1900s, greets fellow faithful before Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Families attend Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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A young girl watches as men and women pray at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Immigrants and refugees from countries like Congo, Togo, and Sudan who have settled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, participate in a driver's ed course hosted by a nonprofit started by St. Paul's United Methodist Church member, Mugisha Gloire, a Congolese refugee who came as a child to Iowa, on Saturday Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)