About us
We are a digital storytelling platform preserving heritage and shaping Shia capital development projects.
All around the globe.
Our Purpose
We believe that every member of our community carries wisdom worth preserving.
The Global Safinah Project exists to make sure that wisdom, emotion, and faith are never lost. Through interactive storytelling, design, and digital connection, we transform memories into living legacies.
Our purpose is threefold:
Safinah was created to change that. It is a growing digital archive and storytelling platform designed to preserve voices, celebrate legacies, and strengthen the bonds that unite our global community.
Preserve Voices
To capture and archive stories, reflections, and experiences that shaped our communal spaces.
Participation
To invite youth, elders, and families to share feedback that influences future mosque developments.
Connect Generations
To bridge the wisdom of our elders with the creativity of our youth through storytelling.
Our Founder
Zaminali Okera founded The Global Safinah Project to connect communities through memory.
Guided by his East African heritage and inspired by the spirit of collective giving that defines the Khoja community, his work bridges architecture, storytelling, and social impact.
Safinah is more than a project—it’s a movement.
A movement to celebrate our shared past, strengthen our present, and guide our future.
Every voice, every reflection, every story adds to this living archive.
Be part of it.
Share your story. Shape tomorrow. Preserve our legacy.