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DWC mosque at night
When you think of Muslim women in the Arab world, what comes to mind? Probably not Second Life. Yet last year the United Arab Emirates' Dubai Womens College opened its second campus in Second Life, according to an article this week in the United Arab Emirates’ newspaper The National Most of their Second Life land is off limits to outsiders, but in 2008 Matt Kwong was given a tour of the virtual campus and wrote a fascinating article about the college and the activities of its students.
I visited the public part and found this little mosque, which according to a sign there is a typical residential area mosque. It’s positioned facing Mecca on the Second Life grid. If you are a Second Life member, you can teleport to it at slurl.com/secondlife/Dubai%20Womens%20College/209/61/30.
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Wow! I had no idea there was a Muslim presence in Second Life, especially an active site for women. That's wonderful!
Thanks for finding it and letting us know about it.
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