Journey of the Midnight Sun

By Shazia Afzal
Journey of the Midnight Sun
Synopsis
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.
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Illustrator: Aliya Ghare
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2022
Page Count: 32
ISBN13: 9781459827608
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