The community then was made up of mostly Lebanese immigrants from as early as the turn of the 20th Century and their first- and second-generation offspring. Imam Chirri was able to transform a community that had lived and almost assimilated into a Christian culture into a community that found solidarity under the Islamic Center Foundation Society in Highland Park, Michigan.
Lebanese immigrants from the early 1900s and their children formed the community. Imam Chirri helped transform this community that had almost assimilated into Christian culture into one that united under the Islamic Center Foundation Society in Highland Park, Michigan.