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Kamal Jumblatt, 39, a hereditary chief of Druse mountain tribesmen and ex-Cabinet minister, formed his own socialist party in 1949, later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first...
A site for the Harvard Islamic Society's mosque has been selected in "the vicinity of Garden Street," Bakhtiyar Ali Khan '59, secretary of the Society, announced recently.
Although an architect has not yet been selected, plans currently call for the new mosque to include prayer facilities, a small library, and a center for Islamic religious festivals. The Islamic Society currently holds services for its one hundred members in Phillips Brooks House.
The new mosque will be considerably smaller than the Washington, D.C., mosque, but Khan felt that the Islamic Society would receive advice on architects and design from the Washington Moslem group.
The Society hopes to build a mosque large enough to serve the needs of the large Islamic population in the area. Although plans for the building depend upon the purchase of a site, the building may include a library of religious works.