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Campus Prayer Spaces

  • Harvard Yard
    • Basement of Canaday Building; Harvard ID required for access
  • Smith Campus Center
    • Prayer and meditation room available 9am-5pm in suite 728. Harvard ID required for access.
  • Harvard Kennedy School
    • Muslim prayer room located in the basement near the main library, Room LG-28
  • Harvard Law School
    • Muslim prayer room located in the Caspersen Student Center, 2nd floor, in the student lounge; Harvard ID required for access
  • Harvard Divinity School (2 prayer spaces)
    • Center for World Religions has a meditation room that is always open
    • Andover Building inside the Chapel on the 3rd floor
  • Harvard Education School (2 prayer spaces)
    • Inside the Longfellow building located at 13 Appian Way, in room 214; open Monday through Friday
    • Inside the Gutman building located at 6 Appian Way; open Saturdays and Sundays
  • Friday Jumua Prayer
    • Khutba begins at 1:00pm and ends at 1:30pm
    • Located in the Lowell Lecture Hall throughout the academic year until June. There are no Jumua Prayers in the summers.

Ramadan Lectures

Recordings of all of Imam Dr. Khalil Abdur-Rashid's Ramadan lectures may be found here: Ramadan Lectures

Halal Dining

  •  All campus dining halls in the student houses, including the Freshman Dining Hall (Annenberg Hall) have halal grilled chicken options. Ask the chef at the grill.
  • The Commons Café in Gutman Library located in Harvard Square at the Education School has halal options and is currently pursuing halal certification of it's kitchen and grill.
  • Chutney’s in Harvard Square (located at 36 John F. Kennedy Street) – chicken curry is halal.
  • Legal Seafood in Charles Square by the Kennedy School (20 University Rd) – the hamburger is halal
  • Star Market (699 Mt. Auburn Street) in Cambridge offers organic halal Angus grass fed ground beef and lamb through the Open Nature and Organics brand.
  • Falafel Corner (8 Eliot St) 
  • Food trucks in the Science Center Plaza with Halal dining options include: Chef Grill, Chicken and Rice Guys, Chik Chak, The Pull-Up, Tandoor and Curry on Wheels, and Zaaki. For a complete, up-to-date schedule of the food trucks in the Plaza please visit here.

Local Mosques

204 Prospect St, Cambridge, MA 02139

378 Rindge Ave, Cambridge 02140

100 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury 02120