Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association
The Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association (ASJA) [1][2] is the largest and most influential Muslim organisation of Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1936, its current president is Imam Yacoob Ali.[3] Larger than 80% of the Trinidadian Muslim belongs to Anjuman Sunnatul jamaat association. It controls 53 mosques 7 Primary School and 2 secondary schools. The members of this organization are Sunni Hanafi Muslim adhering to the traditional practices of Mawlid[4]
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- Denominational primary schooling: The case of Trinidad and Tobago, Clayton G. Mackenzie, International Review of Education 37, #2 (June 1991), pp. 211–226.
- ASJA condemns Danish cartoons, Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday, February 4, 2006.
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