Salaam alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu

We are a new Islamic Center based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.

We are an ethnically mixed community of Believers, who share in common the Belief in the Oneness of Allah & the message of Prophet Muhammad (saw).

This profile is our online presence providing interested Muslims with news & information regarding the Ummah of South Dakota.

Our Islamic Center is based in Sioux Falls, which is a small city in the southeast corner of the state.

If you have a moment, please visit our homepage.

We work, insha Allah, to serve the diverse Muslim community in the region, and also provide dawaah services to the many Americans around us who know little about the teachings of Islam.

The larger Muslim community of Sioux Falls has been growing steadily these last few years, & this includes more & more Muslims.

Many refugees are brought to Sioux Falls by the Lutheran Social Services agency based in Sioux Falls, many of which are Muslims.

In addition Muslim American families migrate to the region for jobs & a more family-friendly place to live.

This has meant that our community consists of Muslims from all the regions of the war-torn world, as well as economic immigrants & Muslim Americans, including converts.

Being that we are in the region known as the "SIOUX EMPIRE", our community consists of various racial/ethnic groups including Native American Muslim converts of Sioux tribal origin.

Our members bring diversity in language, life experiences, education as well as culture to our Islamic Center, al-humdulillah.

Insha Allah, we recognize everyone has a gift from Allah, and we greatly appreciate what each is able to contribute (be it knowledge, skills or other things).

Visit our Children's Corner on our webpage

We also recognize that many of our Muslim residents are being re-settled here by refugee services & have little in financial resources. Many have the right to request help from the larger Ummah under Islamic law. It is our prayer, insha Allah, that as we grow & raise funds we will be able to more effectively assist those in great need who have been displaced & are now resettling here as refugees.

Our Muslim community consists not only people living down the street who attend the masjid regularly, but also Muslims who live miles away (sometimes over one hundred miles) who are only able to come to the masjid once in a while due to the great distance they must travel.

Some of our community members live in towns where they are the only Muslims in their town (in some cases the only physician for that town). They serve as medical professionals where there has been a shortage of medical professionals in the rural towns of this state, may Allah reward them for the service they provide for so many. Some are teachers & professors helping the educational system in the state to educate its young people. Others still are opening up their own businesses, mashallah. Our city (Sioux Falls) has been recognized several years in a row, for being one of the top places to start a business, alhumdulillah. This has meant that business minded Muslim Brothers & Sisters have found that they can open up their own businesses & make a living in a halal format, with little of the red tape (restrictions or fees, etc) found in many other regions of the country.

We encourage those Muslims seeking to move from the larger crime ridden cities to seriously consider the benefits of smaller cities in the midwest part of the United States.

You may find that cities like ours are worthwhile places to raise your children, away from the drugs, gangs & violence. Housing is often not as difficult to obtain as it is in some cities, such as New York City. Diversity is also encouraged amongst our city's government & the state. You won't find public schools here with metal detectors or gangs either, which makes the public schools far more suitable environments for those wishing to keep their kids in public school. Those seeking to home school their children, will find that our state has one of the most easy application processes for home-schooling & will also provide textbooks & other assistance; while allowing you to choose your child's curriculum

Also employment opportunities abound throughout the region. So, if you seek to make hijrah away from the crime & violence of the larger cities in the US, and don't have the means to move overseas...consider the other option. Move to Sioux Falls & other cities like it where there are Masjids & Islamic Centers.

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South Dakota Muslim Women's Network

The work of Islamic Relief here in South Dakota & all over the nation & globe.

Donations Needed for New Islamic Center We are also seeking individuals willing to donate audio tapes (no illegal copies please: it is wrong to deny our fellow Muslims who contribute to the growing knowledge of Islam by stealing their work) of hadith, Quran or lectures relating to dawah, Islamic history, etc.

We would greatly appreciate legally copied audio tapes of Kutbahs from various language groups.

Our community is growing faster than we can provide for its needs, in part due to the number of refugees coming to our area of the country. We need the support, insha Allah, of our fellow Muslims to make sure we are able to provide them with needed resources.

Your assistance in this endeavor is greatly appreciated.

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Our community members are working to provide sadaqa to the Native American community at Fort Thompson, South Dakota. It is the tribal community known as Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. They are unfortunately the poorest Native American tribe in the nation, yet few Americans even realize just how impoverished these people are! They do not get money for being "Indian"! That is a myth, so don't think they are just not working. There is a 70-80% unemployment rate & this is because the gov't has placed their reservation hundreds of miles from ANYTHING!!! They still struggle just to survive as a people. They are truly oppressed & truly needing the help of the Ummah. So members in our community are working to provide some help, even if it is small in comparison to their needs. We at least are trying to help, when & where we can. The photos are pics of some of the children from last September's project that Islamic Relief, in conjunction with some of our members, put on at the Crow Creek Reservation.

Insha Allah, you will consider helping us by having a fund raiser in your area, that collects Wal-Mart gift cards or cards from Lowe's or Home Depot, so that we can purchase needed supplies for these people, who like the Palestinian people have been removed from their lands & places in inhospital conditions in an effort to force them to move so as to survive, and thus ethnically cleanse the region of their cultural community as a people.

We are seeking, insha Allah, Muslims who are willing to donate videos to our growing dawaah library. The videos can be in any language, but especially those in English by native English speakers are appreciated.

We also seek videos that continue to expand the deen of our Muslim community, through education in subjects such as hadith, fiqh, Quran, shariah, Islamic history, etc. (in any language)

While the internet is great for those who HAVE money & resources, the fact is the majority of the world's needy do not have access to this technology, and that includes individuals inside the US. So, we are needing to continue to provide resources that permit the have-nots, to have access to Islamic knowledge. Insha Allah.

If you are willing to consider contributing to the dawah efforts of our Islamic Center, your donations will be greatly appreciated.

Donations can be mailed by postal service to: Islamic Community of South Dakota

701 South Garfield St., Sioux Falls, SD

Those wishing to ship videos by UPS, FED EX or similar shipping services can send packages via the following physical address:
Islamic Community of South Dakota
701 South Garfield St., Sioux Falls, SD 57105

If you are willing to consider contributing to the dawah efforts of our Islamic Center, your donations will be greatly appreciated.

Donations can be mailed by postal service to: Islamic Community of South Dakota


701 South Garfield St., Sioux Falls, SD 57105

Those wishing to ship books by UPS, FED EX or similar shipping services can send packages via the following physical address:
Islamic Community of South Dakota
701 South Garfield St., Sioux Falls, SD 57105