Places to Pray
Tufts University offers convenient and accessible spaces to support the prayer life of the Muslim community on campus. Throughout the academic year, Friday prayers are held at the Tufts Interfaith Center (58 Winthrop St. in Medford) at 1:15pm. Tufts has three custom-designed prayer rooms for individual use located in Curtis Hall, the Cummings Center and in the Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. There is also a small space available for Muslim prayer on the balcony of Goddard Chapel. Tufts also has a Muslim Culture House, located at 176 Curtis Street, where students often offer daily prayers together. The wider Boston area also offers many mosques and Islamic cultural centers in addition to the robust Muslim life on campus.
Local Area Masjids (Mosques)
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The wider Boston area also offers many mosques and Islamic cultural centers that are open for Jummah prayers, classes, and Eid prayers. A partial list is provided below: | Islamic Culture Center of Medford
20 minute walk from campus or 6 minute drive Our mission is to be a safe space for spiritual and cultural exchange and a pillar for the American Muslim community to live and learn Islam. |
Malden Islamic Center
405 Pearl Street Suite #1 Malden, MA 02148 Malden Islamic Center is a 12 minute drive from campus Malden Islamic Center conducts five daily prayer services seven days a week all year long. Additionally, Malden Islamic Center holds two large Friday prayers, Taraweeh prayers in Ramadan and Eid prayers to accommodate the large Muslim community living in Malden and the surrounding areas. Malden Islamic Center also invites local and foreign Muslim scholars to come educate the community about different aspects of Islam in order to expand the knowledge of the community and to help its members assimilate and perform their Islamic obligations, and to assist them in-preserving their Muslim identity. |
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American Muslim Center
82 Spring Street Everett, MA 02149 (15 minute drive) The American Muslim Center is not just a mosque for prayers rather it is a community center for all. The Center is committed to preserving an Islamic identity, building and supporting a viable Muslim community, promoting a comprehensive Islamic way of life-based on the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad. |
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Islamic Society of Boston Community Center (ISBCC)
100 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury, MA (Approximately 45 mins by MBTA from Davis Square, 3 minute walk from Roxbury Crossing on the Orange Line) A Cultural Landmark As one of the most diverse Islamic Centers in the United States, serving over 1400 congregants at its Friday services, it’s only fitting the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center stands tall in one of Boston’s most historic neighborhoods. The ISBCC is located in the heart of Roxbury, a neighborhood that was originally founded as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. The rich cultural history is a constant reminder that the ISBCC is not just New England’s largest mosque, but the center is a shared “dream” that is representative of Boston’s multicultural footprint. |
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Yusuf Mosque
186 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Brighton, MA (Approximately 55 minutes by MBTA from Davis Square) "Yusuf Mosque is a place of worship, socializing and education serving the needs of the Muslim community in Allston, Brighton and surrounding towns: Cambridge, Brookline, Newton and the city of Boston. The Mosque is envisioned to be, with your help and participation, a quiet place of worship and reflection, a place of continuing learning, peace promotion and understanding. We hope our Mosque will not only nurture a growing Muslim community in the area but will also foster interfaith relations with our neighbors."
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Islamic Society of Boston
204 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA (Five blocks from Central Square T Stop)
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Shi’a Services
5 Altamont Road, Quincy, MA (Approximately 45 minutes by MBTA from Davis Square) Phone #: (617)383-2300 Imamia Muslim Foundation of New England 115 Wood Street, Hopkinton, MA (No public transportation option)
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