Souvenir on Baitur Rahman Mosque USA Inauguration — Page 32
MAYORAL PROCIAMATION NO. 1994- 3 RECOGNIZING THE COMMUNITY OF THE BAIT-UR-REHMAN WHEREAS, the American Ahmadiyya Muslim communities panicipate in: supervision of homeless shelters, organization of food drives for the needy, assistance to refugees from war and oppression in cooperation with their Christian brethren, and ecological improvement ejfons, among other contributions to society at large; AND WHEREAS, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the Washington Metropolitan Area will fonnally open its new mosque, the Bait-ur-Rehman ("House of the Gracious Lord"), on Friday, October 14, 1994, at 15000 Good Hope Road, Silver Spring, Maryland; AND WHEREAS, the establishment of the Bait-ur-Rehman Mosque is the culmination of great ejfons of our Ahmadiyya Muslim neighbors. NOW, THEREFORE, I, EDWARD F. SHARP, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND, do hereby proclaim the appreciation of the members of the Takoma Park Community of the manifold ejfons of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for assistance to and beuerment of persons of all ancestries and religious faiths in the Washington Metropolitan Area, and do hereby convey the best wishes of the Takoma Park Community to our neighbors, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the Washington Metropolitan Area, on the occasion of the opening of its new mosque. DA TED this 6th day of September, 1994. AITEST: Thomas H. ESpinosa Acting City Clerk Mayor