Program areas at Islamic Chaplaincy of NJ
House of worship: The orgamization maintains a church (a mosque), where a regular congregation meets for prayer services upto several umes per week, as well as special weekend and holiday services. The organmization also performs weddings, funerals, and blessings of newborn babies, and offers religious guidance to s conaregants
Community service activities The organization performs community service actvities helping people who are afflicted by poverty disaster, persecution, and other crises in furtherance of its congregants’ religious duty to help those who areinneed
Prison ministry: The orgamization runs a prison munstry program providing spirnitual and emotional support to incarcerated individuals. The imam of the mosque and other volunteers visit area jails and prison to lead prayer, provide religious instruction, and hold discussion, as well as organizing rehgious, educational, and recreational events for inmates and their families, working with them both before and after release to facilitate a positive transition into soclety and reduce recidwism