Tag: love

Masjid Bilal

Inauspicious, unassuming, humble. These are words that come to mind when I consider places like this mosque. And there are plenty of places of worship in Scarborough that are similar. They are not created from money or pride, rather from need and faith. They serve a purpose in their community. They serve those who care and love. And this place of prayer represents its kind appropriately, to the best of my knowledge, when I see the separate doors marked for Sisters and Brothers and the charity box out front to receive and help dispense alms. When one has faith, one can always give. St. Peter’s (in Rome) or Notre Dame (Paris) or Masjid al-Haram (Mecca) could never touch my heart the way this place does by its humility.

Check out their site: https://masjidbilal.ca/

Perfect Love

Auspicious that the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been to my door as I prepare this inaugural blog post to share my fascination with the multitude of faiths and forms of worship here in my home city of Scarborough (part of Toronto). Scarborough is not unique and I know some others will recognize this diversity from their own communities. Others may live in places where there are narrower views or less choice. For me, faith transcends any human-driven interpretation or agenda (which is, by the way, the view I’ve just shared with the gentlemen from the local Kingdom Hall). That’s part of its beauty and is a contributor to the joy I feel in it.

So, I wish to share with you, in photos and words, a representation of what Scarborough, representing the wider world of worship, offers. What better place to start than the Perfect Love Tabernacle?

They have a site, too: https://www.perfectlovetabernacle.org/