Cuban pilgrims( from left to right) Samir, Yamal, Isa, Yahya and Ibrahim
The diversity Ten or fifteen years ago, people was talking about the Cuban Muslim community as one, but today Cuban Muslims organize their religious life and interact with society from their very local circumstances and in accordance with their own referents to understand and develop what is Islam. These referents differ and so they determine that the experience of Islamic practices in different communities proves to be different. Although LIC ยด s objectives are projected to the whole country, the actual experience mainly materializes in Havana. In the inland, the activities do not take place with the same frequency and attendance. LIC strives to take care of Muslims outside the capital through visits and aids, but these are far from being sufficient. Apart from the house of Imam Yahya, there are other places in Havana frequented by dozens of Muslims.
Separate places of Sunni Muslims have been set up in the neighborhoods El Cerro, Alamar and Lawton. The Arab House Museum, in Old Havana, has a prayer room for Muslim diplomats, but also Cuban Muslims attend. Neither these groups nor LIC have defined a certain madhhab, although the trend points to the Maliki school. Not all Muslims attending Friday prayers at the venue of LIC are members of it. Similarly, the other spaces for prayers in Havana and the inland provide access to Muslims regardless of their affiliation or membership. There are Muslims in all Cuban provinces, with variable membership depending not only of the population density, but also of the own community dynamics. In the relatively small town of Jovellanos( Matanzas Province), for instance, there are about 40 Muslims who proportionately outnumber the Muslim communities in more populous
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