The mosque served as community sponsor.
Samba schools, which serve as community associations, are found throughout the city and are most active during the height of Carnival.
Activists describe mosques as the most effective way to reach Muslims because immigrant societies remain heavily patriarchal and because American mosques serve as community centers.
"These down-home, mom-and-pop operations serve as community gathering points, places where people aren't always on their phones or laptops," Thompson said.
Mr. Klein said the local instructional supervisors who serve as community superintendents would still be responsible for overseeing their groups of schools.
The new buildings serve as community centers for a growing Jewish population, which consists, in large part, of recent immigrants from formerly Communist countries.
We could set up solidarity houses in Greece, which would serve as community centres for the local population and also provide food and shelter to migrants.
The temples also serve as community centres and provide classes in classical Indian music and several forms of bhakti-imbued classical dances from India including bharata natyam, kuchipudi, and orissi (odissi).
Some of the younger Greenmarkets in neighborhoods like Inwood and Fort Greene, Brooklyn, have only a dozen or so stands, but are beloved and serve as community gathering places in a way the crowded Union Square market can't.
Finally, the group included two retired people who served as community volunteers.
Many Armenian communities in the country are concentrated around churches that serve as community centers.
