How Cat Stevens helped Nashville’s Muslims find a home

Zainab Elberry remembers the day the check came.

Trying to build a congregation and raise money for a new Islamic center in the pre-internet age of the late 1970s required some ingenuity. So the small group behind one of Nashville’s first mosques rented a P.O. Box and mailed invitations to every Muslim-sounding name in the phone book, hoping for the best, Elberry said.

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