CEO, NATIONAL BLACK CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
Abdur-Rahim Hameed was the lead carpenter on the construction of Bayview Baptist Church. Hameed was the framing contractor at Christian Fellow and also worked on St. Paul’s United Methodist Church at 30th and Clay streets. Inspired by Malcom X and Muhammad Ali, at the age of 16, he joined the Nation of Islam and ultimately changed his name from his birth name of Donald Ware. Hameed has 10 children, five of whom are in the construction trades. Four of his sons are carpenters and a daughter is a construction manager and architect
