Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan has spent years looking for a place where Long Island Muslims can bury their dead.
That search led Bhuiyan, where he is chairman of the Hillside Islamic Center mosque, to a bucolic country road in Bellport, about 80 minutes away by car.
Mosque officials are seeking Brookhaven Town and Suffolk County approvals to build a cemetery that could hold up to 12,000 plots on a 13.78-acre parcel on Beaver Dam Road. The area is occupied by homes, industrial plants and a sand mining operation.
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