A resident of the Iraqi community in Canada built the first mosque in Inuvik, a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Dr. Hussein Qasti managed to build the first mosque in Canada’s far-north province, in the Inuvik town, and he called it ‘Nihayat al-Alam Mosque’ or the End of the World Mosque.

About 80 Muslims live in the town, almost all of them Arabs who came from Canada.

Previously, they had no place to pray, other than a wooden house 3 meters wide and 7 meters long. The Muslim community there dreamed of having a mosque in Inuvik, which has a population of only 3,700 people.

Iraqi engineer Ahmad al-Khalaf, who has lived in the area for 9 years, says, "Helping the people of Inuvik is the main purpose of the implementation of the project.”