EVENT INFORMATION

18
July
2012

The Justice Department intervenes to protect the opening of a Murfreesboro mosque

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📅 18 July 2012 📍 United States

The US Justice Department sued Rutherford County, Tennessee, seeking to ensure that the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro could obtain an occupancy certificate for its new mosque. The complaint challenged unequal treatment under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act after a state-court dispute had blocked the process. This entry dates the federal filing and request for relief, not the mosque’s eventual opening. It connects a congregation’s struggle for worship space with enforceable civil-rights protections.

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Organizations in this Event

Islamic Center of Murfreesboro

US Department of Justice

Rutherford County