Daily News | Man arrested in vandalism of mosque in Northwest Philadelphia, police say
Vandalism on the Masjidullah Center for Human Excellence in Northwest Philadelphia. Security footage captured a suspect painting the mosque on Feb. 24.Police have arrested a man for vandalizing a Northwest Philadelphia mosque on Friday in what may have been a hate crime.at Limekiln Pike and Washington Lane in the city’s Cedarbrook section recorded a man painting “Jesus Christ” several times and other symbols on the doors of the center.
First opened as a synagogue in 1947, the building was converted to the West Oak Lane Church of God in the 1970s. The Masjidullah group purchased the complex for $1 million in 2013.
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