{"id":236907,"date":"2026-07-06T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236907\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:08:15","slug":"arson-at-northeast-philadelphia-islamic-center-under-investigation-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236907\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson at Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center under investigation, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Philadelphia are investigating an arson at an Islamic center over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police and firefighters responded to a call about a fire at the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center on the 1400 block of Tyson Avenue around 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters put out a blaze in the building&#8217;s enclosed front porch. No one was in the building at the time, and no injuries have been reported, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia fire marshals also responded to the scene and determined the fire was arson. Northeast detectives are investigating the fire. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. In a statement, the organization also called on state and federal authorities to investigate the fire.<\/p>\n<p>An online fundraising page for the mosque says it was founded in 2004 and was already raising money to build a larger space even before the fire. The fire caused significant damage to the existing building, it says.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Philadelphia are investigating an arson at an Islamic center over the weekend.\u00a0 Police and firefighters responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2327,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-236907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}