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The Islamic Society of Boston〔http://islamicsocietyofboston.net/〕 (ISB) is a mosque and cultural center for Muslims in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The ISB offers daily, weekly and annual programs for Muslims including Arabic and English classes on religious and secular topics as well as a religious school for children and holiday programs. The society also organizes trips and summer camps for children and classes on Islam for new and non-Muslims. The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center〔()〕 is a related mosque and cultural center in Roxbury, Boston. ==History== The society was founded in 1981 by Muslim students as a consolidation of Muslim Students' Associations at Harvard University, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Suffolk University, and Tufts University. The organization's first location was a hall reserved at MIT where they held prayers and weekly seminars and classes. In 1991, the ISB purchased a Cambridge building as a community center and in 1993 purchased a second location and began to renovate it. In 1994 they opened the second location as a mosque. The ISB has also purchased a rental property to provide income for the annual operating expenses of the center. Reports of ties to radical Islam have been controversial and disputed.〔''Boston Herald'' October 23, 2003〕 The society has brought suit for defamation against individuals and institutions issuing press and other reports of these ties. This mosque shares many of its members and teachers with the nearby mosques of Islamic Center of New England〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moderate imam reveals how radicals won battle for soul of Boston mosques )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islamic Society of Boston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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