# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYCso2vDhgF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65155065-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-07T15:16:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

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.

Link in bio for more. (Photos: Randee Daddona, Drew Singh)
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#longisland #longislandny #suffolkcounty #hillside #bellport

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