Al Huda, Images from a Roman Mosque - Emiliano Cavicchi

EMILIANO CAVICCHI

Inside Al Huda, a former garage of Centocelle's outskirt neighborhood of Rome, from 1994 mosque of the city.

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Inside the main room of 'Al Huda' mosque, originally an underground garage of an outskirt building of Rome.

Haidi from Morocco, an invalid homeless who is hosted in Al Huda with the father, kisses the Koran in the mosque.

The bathroom in Al Huda mosque, where faithfuls can ritually wash themselves before pray.

In the main underground room of the mosque, during "Jumu'ah", friday in Arabic and main pray day of Muslim week. Before the pray, the Imam is speaking the sermon to the faithfuls.

During second pray of "Jumu'ah" (Muslims attend five different calls during a day), the small mosque can't hold all the faithfuls, whose often stand and pray outside for what was the original garage enter.

Inside the one small room mosque school for learning Italian. Mohammed from Tunisia, gatekeeper of the building, is not feeling good today.

After the pray, inside the empty mosque.

Two children checking results of Arabic classes in front of the mosque. Arab born children of area do in the morning regular Italian school, then in the afternoon they attend Arabic classes at the same public building.

The blackboard of the small school of Italian for Arab people inside the mosque. Arabic words 'Mhan', 'Limadha', 'Mada', (translated in Italian) meaning 'Who', 'Why', 'What'.

While soup boils in this room off Al Huda, Farhed from Algeria reads Koran. Today he is the 'chef': community provides traditional dinners for Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of Purification, to faithfuls, or simply who joins the Muslim festivities, as me.

Inside the gym room of 'Scuola San Felice', Italian public school of neighborhood, which the Arab community uses sometimes for its festivities and events.

Arab children pose before during a soccer match in the courtyard of Italian public school of the neighborhood called 'Scuola San Felice', where they attend the regular Italian classes as well as Arabic courses.

Ethiopian women prepare African coffè during an Arab event in the Italian public school of neighborhood 'Scuola San Felice', at summer.

Inside the mosque, at the 'Iftar', when Muslims are allowed after sunset to break the daily fast of holy month of Ramadan, someone is finally biting grape.

At the 'Iftar', when Muslims are allowed after sunset to break the daily fast during holy month of Ramadan, the community offers some milk, water, grapes and dates palm in Al Huda. Ibrahim from Tunisia, offers to me grapes.

Velya from Macedonia looks at me in the mosque, during Muslim festivity 'Laylatul-qadr', 'The Night of the Power'. Faithfuls stay in closed mosque until dawn; by Muslims the reward of one good deed in this night is like as it is performed for 1000 months.

Mohammed Amin from Tunisia in traditional clothes during Ramadan in Al Huda.

Youssef from Tunisia in traditional clothes during Ramadan in Al Huda.