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Masjid Al-Jamia is a Sunni mosque in West Philadelphia . It was founded in 1988 by members of the Muslim Students Association at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn MSA). Eight years later, the mosque became independent from the Penn MSA and, around 2009, acquired ownership of the building. [1] Located at 4228 Walnut Street, in a historic ...
Hahnemann University Hospital was a tertiary care center in Center City Philadelphia.It was the teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine. [2] Established in 1885, it was for most of its history the main teaching hospital associated with its namesake medical school, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, founded in 1848 and named for Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of ...
The Maghrib prayer ( Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers). If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one. According to Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after sunset, following Asr prayer, and ends at the beginning of night, the start of ...
In 2016 Inga Saffron, architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, called the new Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple "the most radical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century ... because it dares to be so out of step with today's design sensibilities and our bottom-line culture." Estimating its cost as more than $100 ...
A union that represents thousands of Philadelphia city employees asked a judge Tuesday to block Mayor Cherelle Parker’s requirement that they return to their offices full time as of July 15. The ...
The theatre housed the Philadelphia Drama Guild until 1981. [29] Walnut Street Theatre Company, a non-profit regional producing company, was formed in 1983 by Bernard Havard. [ 29 ] In 1984, Walnut Street Theatre School was established and over 1,200 students enroll annually, and 1986 saw the introduction of the Independence Studio on 3 series.
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worker with a flood victim from Floyd in Philadelphia Floyd's rain affecting Pennsylvania, and surrounding states. September 16, 1999 – Hurricane Floyd, which was a tropical storm by the time it reached Pennsylvania, caused 13 deaths and 10 inches (250 mm) of rain in the eastern part of the ...
The Port of Philadelphia is located on the Delaware River in Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . Generally the term applies to the publicly owned marine terminals located within Philadelphia city limits along west bank of the river. These terminals are managed by the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, PhilaPort, [ 2] an agency ...