Longview — Members of Longview’s Muslim community announced they will hold an open house Friday for the city’s first mosque.

“This room is called the musallah, the prayer hall,” said Saleem Shabazz, spokesman for the Islamic Centre of Longview, who welcomed reporters into a green-and-gold carpeted hall that dominates the roughly 3,000-square-foot mosque on Amy Street in far North Longview. 

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