KHMER ISLAM - moments of joy and some praying time

The Khmer Islam, known as the Cham Muslims is an ethnic group that lives in villages near the Mekong and Tonle Sap river in Cambodia. Cambodia. 06/01/2009.

Most Chams of around 450.000 in Cambodia provide themselves with fishing and agriculture. Like Islam countries around the world they also pray five times a day in arabic in their local mosques...

It was a pleasure to go into their domain and see the friendly and happy faces all around. Even in the village mosques, the elderly were fully cooperate and allow me to take the photoshoots from any angle I wanted. Also the women, wearing burka's, gave me a smile while taking their pictures for the series...

The Khmer Islam-series were shot in the Islam Spiritual Center, Russei Chrouy village, Masjid-Alrahmani mosque all north of Phnom Penh, in the Masjid Thom Dubai mosque on the borders of Boeung Kak lake and in the Nurunnaim Mosque and Chrang Chamreh village on National Road 5...