The Salaam Center began operating in 2016 in its small storefront in Highlandtown,

an East Baltimore neighborhood. At the time, the Baltimore Resettlement Center

was directly across the street, so it was easy for new refugees to find us.

The Arabic writing in our window was a welcome sight to many of them.

Our Location

Many Muslim and Arabic-speaking refugees who came to Baltimore were settled in Moravia,

a neighborhood just northeast of the Center, and in Dundalk, a nearby neighborhood in southeast

Baltimore. Even though the Baltimore Resettlement Center moved in 2019, Highlandtown remains

a good location for the Center.

People We Serve

Many of the people we serve were displaced from their countries before coming to the U.S. Quite

a few spent time in refugee camps in the Middle East and Africa, and some of the children were

even born in these camps. The refugee community served by the Salaam Center has changed

somewhat since we began. In 2016, many of the refugees who came to us were originally from Syria.

Since then, we have had the opportunity to serve people from a wider range of Middle Eastern

and African countries.