Pickering Islamic Centre – Masjid Usman

Sisters Youth Program

Ages 12 and up

Beginning January 2013

First Sunday of every month

3:00pm - 5:00pm

at Pickering Islamic Centre

Academic Excellence at Our ECE

The call to establish an Early Childhood Education centre in the Pickering area was long felt in the community with many young families desiring to give quality education to their children right from the very beginning.

At Pickering Islamic Centre we are committed to providing our children a head start by assisting them at an early age to develop a strong Muslim-Canadian identity. Read More

Thomas Jefferson's Quran

Jefferson bought this copy of the Qur’an around 1765, when he was still a student of law at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. This quickly refutes the notion that Jefferson’s interest in Islam came in response to the Barbary threat to shipping. Instead, it situates his interest in the Qur’an in the context of his legal studies – a conclusion that is consistent with his shelving of it in the section on jurisprudence.