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Dear All
A Trip is being planned by Dr. M. Vasant in July 2007, to Musoma.
Please see attached and also Musoma website / blog, for further information.
It will be a good time to go as a group and you will see that there are a couple of good new Hotels (Hotel Matvilla and Hotel Afrilux), available at a reasonable cost.
You will be able to see the town as it is and also see the projects that Dr. Vasant has undertaken and driven forward and accomplished a lot in the past three years!
There is more to come. We should all thank Dr. Vasant for taking this initiative on our behalf and pursuing the goal relentlessly and selflessly, making many trips to Musoma using his own initiative and resources.
If any of you are interested, please do let us know on this email address or direct your enquiries to Dr. Vasant on his email. (You can get his email address from Musoma.com)
See attached which will give you some indication of the proposed dates and itinerary.
on Behalf of UK Musomians
Harshad Kothari
Download and view some information on this trip:
1. Accomodation
2. Volunteers needed for Projects from 10th June, 2007
Recently an email had been sent out to all Musomians, requesting information, anecdotes, memories, stories, connected to and surrounding the origins and construction of the Jamatkhana in Musoma.
Mr Diamond Esmail, closely connected to the Musoma Jamatkhana, was the first and only Musomian to respond with a brief history into how the Musoma Jamatkhana came into being. His response received by email of March 13, 2007, is posted below.
It makes for some interesting reading and provides an insight into a bit of Musoma history.
I would like to throw some light into the background of how and when was Musoma Jamatkhana construction work carried out.
In 1937 Mukhi Kurji Rajan, Popat Premji, Hasam Kassam and my dad Gulamhussein Esmail were appointed on JamatKhana Committee by Mwanza Ismailia Council. One of their mandates was to acquire a plot for building new JamatKhana. My father was assigned the task of looking for a suitable site. After trying for numerous sites(about 15) a plot by the Lake Shore was bought in 1962.
The foundation lay-out ceremony was carried out by the Regional Commissioner Mr. Wambura.
My father was involved in all the phases of construction from Architectural drawings to approvals of plans with the Government Agencies (i.e. Municipal & Regional) to painting and fencing off JamatKhana.
With Mohamed Alibhai (Mohamed Soda), my father oversaw the project everyday for one and half years. The JamatKhana was opened in 1964.
Diamond Esmail, Senior Systems Consultant
Canada
I would request Mr Esmail to share, if possible and convenient, some pictures during the opening and various aspects of the construction.
Musomians may add their memories, anecdotes, stories about the Musoma Jamatkhana below in the comments section.
In response