{"id":22,"date":"2014-01-26T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2016-01-23T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T14:20:09","slug":"about-imam-ali-masjid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/about-imam-ali-masjid\/","title":{"rendered":"About Imam Ali Masjid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imam Ali Masjid was established to serve the needs of the Shia Muslim community in the Philadelphia\/South Jersey area.\u00a0 Shia Ithna Ashari (also known as Twelver Shia or Jafari) follow the spiritual teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and the twelve Holy Imams.<\/p>\n<p>In matters of religious laws, the masjid refers to the Tawdheehul-Masaa-il (Islamic Laws) of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistani.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.sistani.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The masjid is open to all cultures and strives to meet those needs with programs in English, Farsi, and Arabic.\u00a0 Regular events include:<br \/>\n&#8211; Thursday night congregational prayers with recitation of Dua Kumayl<br \/>\n&#8211; Islamic classes covering theology, jurisprudence, ethics, and recitation of Quran<br \/>\n&#8211; Sunday youth soccer<\/p>\n<p>See the <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a> page for directions and a map<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imam Ali Masjid was established to serve the needs of the Shia Muslim community in the Philadelphia\/South Jersey area.\u00a0 Shia Ithna Ashari (also known as Twelver Shia or Jafari) follow the spiritual teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and the twelve Holy Imams. In matters of religious laws, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/about-imam-ali-masjid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Imam Ali Masjid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imamalimasjid.com\/iam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}