‘Uncles and aunties’ of Wingren Village

[20/20] Former Wingren Village Apartments residents Mohammed Humayoun Butt (back left), his daughter Natasha, (front left), his wife Navin, (left on the staircase), their family friend Surriya U-Kiu, (right on the staircase), her daughters Aisha, (right) and Moizza (far right), pose a photo on the steps of the apartment complex the U-Kiu family used to live, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[1/20] Former Wingren Village Apartments residents Aisha U-Kiu (left), Mohammed Humayoun Butt (center) and his daughter Natasha (right), alongside her children, walk around apartment complex during a tour on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. Starting in the late 1980s, dozens of South Asian families, most of whom were of Pakistani descent, moved to an apartment complex in Irving, Texas called Wingren Village. Together, they created a little version of home. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[2/20] Aizah Choudhry, 6, (back), her sister Aleena, 4, (center), and friend Mahira Fazal, 5, puts on a star shaped sticker on the calendar commemorating the days of Ramadan, ahead of a Iftar gathering on, Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Irving . (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[3/20] Surriya U-Kiu (center left) spends time with her friends and known faces at the dinner table during a Eid gathering at her home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[4/20] Anaya Choudhry, 8, (left), looks over to her grandmother Navin Butt as she finishes her Maghrib prayer followed by a Iftar gathering, on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at their home in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[5/20] Mohammed Humayoun Butt (center) goes around the Iftar table during a family gathering on, Saturday, April 6, 2024, at his home in Irving. According to Butt, not many Pakistani families lived in Irving in the mid-1980s, but word of the Wingren Village spread by the mid-1990s. As the complex started attracting more South Asian families, mostly Pakistani but also including those of Bangladeshi and Indian descent, some residents of Wingren Village started grocery stores and other services nearby to cater to their cultural needs.(Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[6/20] Aisha U-Kiu (right) takes a photo of her childhood friend Natasha Butt as she poses for a photo with her kids in front of a pay phone booth at Wingren Village Apartments, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. The pay phone was used by the apartment residents to make overseas calls and still remains behind the laundry room of the apartment complex. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[7/20] Natasha Butt (left) and her childhood friend Aisha U-Kiu, goes through photo albums looking for photos from their time at the Wingren Village Apartments, Saturday, April 6, 2024, at Butt’s house in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

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[9/20] Mohammed Humayoun Butt (center) takes his grandchildren on a tour around the Wingren Village Apartments, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[10/20] Navin Butt prepares, Zarda, Pakistani sweet rice for dessert, ahead of an Iftar gathering, on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at their home in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[11/20] Natasha Butt, helps her daughter, Anaya Choudhry, 8, with her head wrap ahead of Maghrib prayer followed by a Iftar gathering, on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at her home in Irving.(Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[12/20] Surriya U-Kiu (right) greets the guests while seeing them off following a Eid gathering at her home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[13/20] Eid gathering wraps up at Aisha U-Kiu’s home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[14/20] Aisha U-Kiu (left) reacts while playing a board game with her nephew Shahmir Adeel, 2, (center), and friend Hamza Shakil during a Eid gathering at her home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[15/20] Navin Butt, (back right), interacts with family friend Kulsum Ibrahim (back left), at the dinner table during a Eid gathering at Surriya U-Kiu’s home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[16/20] Kids watch as Mohammed Humayoun Butt (front), leads the Maghrib prayer followed by a Iftar gathering on, Saturday, April 6, 2024, at his home in Irving . (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[17/20] Aisha U-Kiu reads a story book as Anaya Choudhry, 8, (front), daughter of her childhood friend, Natasha Butt, plays with a pillow during a Eid gathering at Aisha U-Kiu’s home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[18/20] Natasha Butt, (back center), watches her kids including Anaya Choudhry, 8, (front) reacts while playing charades during a Eid gathering at Surriya U-Kiu’s home on, Friday, April 12, 2024 in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[19/20] Wingren Village Apartment Homes photographed, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[20/20] Former Wingren Village Apartments residents Mohammed Humayoun Butt (back left), his daughter Natasha, (front left), his wife Navin, (left on the staircase), their family friend Surriya U-Kiu, (right on the staircase), her daughters Aisha, (right) and Moizza (far right), pose a photo on the steps of the apartment complex the U-Kiu family used to live, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)

[1/20] Former Wingren Village Apartments residents Aisha U-Kiu (left), Mohammed Humayoun Butt (center) and his daughter Natasha (right), alongside her children, walk around apartment complex during a tour on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Irving. Starting in the late 1980s, dozens of South Asian families, most of whom were of Pakistani descent, moved to an apartment complex in Irving, Texas called Wingren Village. Together, they created a little version of home. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)