Salah Eddine Benatia, center, speaks during a community gathering to discuss plans for Ramadan held for members of Masjid Al-Taqwa, held at a school in Pasadena, California, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025.

Now, all that remains of Masjid Al Taqwa — the first mosque in the Altadena-Pasadena area — are soot, ash and charred twisted skeletons of chairs. A sign proclaiming the mosque’s name stands ...

The Eaton Fire destroyed Delores Abdus-Shakoor’s family home, real estate business, and Masjid Al-Taqwa, the mosque her family helped to found in the 1970s. Now, two months after the devastating blaze ...

The first mosque in the Altadena-Pasadena area, Masjid Al-Taqwa, and the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center were both reduced to ashes. Jihad Abdus-Shakoor, who is chair of the Crisis and Recovery ...

The remains of the Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque are seen in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire, Jan. 10, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Bob Smietana January 11, 2025 ...

It was called the Pasadena-Altadena Daawa Center until members in 1997 renamed it Masjid Al-Taqwa, which means "pious and god-conscious." "All these years, we've been good citizens," Abdus-Shakoor ...

Donate now. Jihad Abdus-Shakoor, who is chair of the Crisis and Recovery Committee for Masjid Al-Taqwa, and Melissa Levy, executive director of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, joined "AirTalk ...

All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in one of the Los Angeles ...

PASADENA, California — All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in ...