Mosques And Minarets

The two-story, beige brick structure that houses the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation school and mosque squats alongside the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, not far from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Few motorists on the busy highway would notice the mosque but for its minaret and gleaming blue dome, which stand out in that drab and commercial Jamaica neighborhood. The Islamic Center’s architectural flourishes caught my eye recently as …