2019 in Pictures

Some of the photos that shaped 2019 for Muslims around the world.

Rashida Tlaib, wearing a traditional Palestinian robe, takes the oath of office on Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an as one of the first two Muslim Congresswomen in the US. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Ilhan Omar takes the oath of office on Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an as one of the first two Muslim Congresswomen in the US. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Salma Zahid elected in 2019 as Liberal Member of Parliament for Scarborough Centre

Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane celebrate after winning the 2019 Champions League

Listed as Europe’s first green eco-mosque, the Cambridge Central Mosque opened its doors officially in December.

American singer Della Miles, vocalist for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, converts to Islam

NZ Rugby Player Ofa Tu’ungafasi Accepts Islam shortly after Christchurch mosque massacre

Flowers and signs pictured at a memorial as a tribute to victims of the mosque attacks, near a police line outside Masjid Al Noor in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugging a woman at the Kilbirnie Mosque in the aftermath of the shootings.

20,000 Pakistanis standing in formation created a human image of the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch

Uyghur women grieving for their men who they claim were taken away by the Chinese authorities in Urumqi, China. Ng Han Guan/AP

A Muslim woman took a photo with a mob of angry Christian protesters outside the venue of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) convention in Washington, DC.

Australian teenager William Connolly, known as “egg boy” seen breaking egg on the head of controversial Australian senator, Fraser Anning, who had blamed Muslim immigration for the Christchurch shooting.

Muslim woman stepping in to confront a man over his anti-Semitic rant at a Jewish father and son on the London underground.

Imam Suhaib Webb speaking at McCormick Place, Chicago during the MAS-ICNA convention held from Dec 27-29.

Khutbah conducted by Ustadth Feraidoon Mojadedi about the “Love of God and His Prophet” at the Knowledge Retreat 2019 ahead of the Reviving Islamic Spirit convention in Toronto.

The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year’s Amazonian tropical dry season.

Notre-Dame Cathedral was destroyed completely in a fire on Monday, April 15, in a tragic loss to a historical place. SHUTTERSTOCK/LOIC SALAN

On April 10, a group of scientists from the international Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first-ever photograph of a supermassive black hole to the public. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP

One of 2019’s top astronomy events occurred on January 20-21 with a total lunar eclipse and was seen mainly in the Americas as well as some other regions of the Old World.

From London to Makkah – 8 British Muslims successfully cycled to Hajj

Ohi Aidros Samri, 130-year-old Indonesian national, believed to be the oldest person to ever perform Hajj, was welcomed by a number of Saudi officials. (Twitter)

The “Hello, I am a Muslim” initiative aims to encourage mutual communication and cooperation between Muslims and non-Muslims [Anadolu]

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