Ramadan

Young girl at evening prayers with her father during Ramadan, 2010, GERH_0001; Robert E. Gerhardt, Jr. photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.

This Sunday, March 10 marks the new moon and the start of Ramadan. In this photo from the Robert E. Gerhardt, Jr. photograph collection, a young girl stares intently into the camera. She and her father are praying at the Muslim American Society in Bath Beach, 1933 Bath Avenue, in 2010. Robert Gerhardt Began photographing Muslims in Brooklyn in 2010 during Ramadan, leading him to photograph mosques and Muslims all over the United States for the next seven years. I was unable to find the year that MAS began using the Bath Beach location as their Youth Center. In our digitized newspapers, 1933 Bath avenue was the site of a weight loss center as late as 1983. More information may be available via our undigitized local newspapers, or of course by asking MAS.

This photograph and others were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2017 as part of the Muslim in New York show.

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