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.
The community consisted mainly of Lebanese immigrants from the early 1900s and their first- and second-generation children. Imam Chirri successfully transformed a community that had lived as if it were Christian into one that embraced solidarity through the Islamic Center Foundation Society in Highland Park, Michigan.