Our Mission

Hello! We are the Islamic Society of Downey—ISOD. Our mission is simple: to promote peace, love, and acceptance of all persons and to provide a safe place of worship for our community. To manifest our mission, ISOD functions along three core dimensions that we believe help better society for everyone.

The first dimension ISOD strives to excel within is that of acceptance. At ISOD, we believe that everyone deserves love, respect, and acceptance everywhere and anywhere. Consequently, we aim to foster an environment that encourages our community to spread and reciprocate love, respect, and acceptance for one another. This is why we strongly engage and support interfaith events with various different congregations and places of worship.

The second dimension ISOD aims to proper within is the spread of knowledge. As a society, we have so much to learn from one another and there is room for all of us to learn more and grow as individuals with the support of our community. Much like the great scholarly thinkers of the past, we value knowledge above all other means of promoting peace, love, and acceptance.

The final dimension ISOD reinforces is that of empowerment. We believe that by empowering and encouraging one another to be the best version of ourselves, we can truly contribute to the overall betterment of society. By aligning our goals towards being better humans, citizens, neighbors, friends, siblings, parents, children, and individuals, we can all uplift one another and make progress towards becoming the best versions of ourselves.