Little Mosque on the Prairie

Little Mosque on the Prairie
Logo for Little Mosque on the Prairie in early seasons.
Created by	Zarqa Nawaz
Starring	Zaib Shaikh Carlo Rota Sheila McCarthy Sitara Hewitt Manoj Sood Arlene Duncan Debra McGrath Derek McGrath Brandon Firla Neil Crone Aliza Vellani
Ending theme	Music and singing by Maryem Tollar
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	90 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mary Darling Clark Donnelly
Location(s)	Ontario and Saskatchewan, Canada
Running time	22 mins. (approx)
Production company(s)	WestWind Pictures
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	January 9, 2007 – April 2, 2012
External links
Website

Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian television sitcom created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures, originally broadcast between 2007 and 2012 on CBC. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan, the series was showcased at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival. After the series finale aired in April 2012, Hulu announced it would begin offering the series under the name Little Mosque that summer. The series made its U.S. syndication debut on Pivot in August 2013.

The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000). The primary institutions of the community are the local mosque, presided over by imam Amaar Rashid and located in the rented parish hall of the town's Anglican church, and Fatima's Café, a downtown diner run by Fatima Dinssa. The community patriarchs are Yasir Hamoudi, a construction contractor who originally fronted the money to establish the mosque under the pretense that he was renting office space for his business, and Baber Siddiqui, a college economics professor who served as the mosque's temporary imam until Amaar was hired.

The town of Mercy is governed by Mayor Ann Popowicz. Sarah Hamoudi, Yasir's wife, works as a public relations officer in Popowicz's office. However, after Yasir had to leave Mercy and go to Lebanon in season 4 episode 10, Sarah managed his contracting company.

The title is a play on the name of the classic American book and TV drama series, Little House on the Prairie. The two series are not related aside from the modified version of the title logo which was used for early seasons.