All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. The mosque burned to the ground in one of the Los Angeles area's deadliest fires in January - leaving the congregation heartbrok.

Junaid Aasi, center, a volunteer imam at Masjid Al-Taqwa, leads a prayer during a community gathering to discuss plans for Ramadan, held for members of the burned Altadena mosque, at a school in ...

It was called the Pasadena-Altadena Daawa Center until members in 1997 renamed it Masjid Al-Taqwa, which means "pious and god-conscious." "All these years, we've been good citizens," Abdus-Shakoor ...