The Town of Oyster has agreed to approve the expansion plan for the Masjid Al-Baqi mosque in Bethpage and pay $3.95 million to The Muslims on Long Island as a settlement of a months-long legal dispute.
The Muslims on Long Island filed suit against the Town of Oyster Bay in January for rejecting its application to expand the mosque. The group cited the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the First and 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the New York State Constitution and Article 78 of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules.
