A new mosque planned for Brighton Beach

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyBrighton Beach’s newest house of worship may be a mosque.Brooklyn-based congregation Masjid Al-Arqam aims to build a five-story mosque on Banner Avenue. Congregant leaders filed plans with the Department of Buildings last month to erect the house of worship in the residential neighborhood between Brighton Seventh and Brighton Eighth streets, as first reported by the real-estate website YIMBY.
Neighbors had fought every step