List of mosques in the United States
This is a list of notable mosques in the United States of America.
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Selected history of mosques in the United States
A mosque, or masjid, can be defined as any place that Muslims pray facing to Mecca, and is not necessarily a building; by that meaning there were mosques in the United States by 1731 or earlier. Muslim Job ben Solomon (1701-1773), an African-American who was kidnapped into slavery in Senegal or Gambia, is documented by his slave narrative memoir to have prayed in the forest of Kent Island, Maryland, where he was brought during 1731-33.[1]
Some sources assert that what is likely the first American mosque building was a mosque in Biddeford, Maine that was founded in 1915 by Albanian Muslims. A Muslim cemetery still existed there in 1996.[2][3]
However the first "purpose-built" mosque building was probably a mosque opened in 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. It was close to the famous Highland Park Ford Plant which began mass, assembly-line production of Ford Model T cars in 1913, and where "hundreds of Arab American men" came to work. This mosque included Sunni, Shiite and Ahmadi Muslims, and was funded by Muhammad Karoub, a real estate developer.[1]
The Mother Mosque of America, built in 1934 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is asserted to be the oldest still-existing mosque building in the U.S. Also is asserted to be the oldest standing mosque in the U.S. is the Al-Sadiq Mosque, built in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.
Nation of Islam mosques, mostly of African Americans, are often in storefronts or former churches.[1]
It has been estimated that there were somewhat more than 100 mosques in the U.S. in 1970, but immigration of more than a million Muslims since then led to hundreds more being built.[1]
In 1994 the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in California, was destroyed by fire set in a hate-crime, and is so far the only mosque destroyed by a hate-crime in U.S. history. It had just been completed at cost of $1.8 million plus sweat equity of the Muslims of its rural community, including descendants of Pakistani who immigrated to the area c. 1902. Its story, including its rebuilding, is told in David Washburn's 2012 documentary film An American Mosque.[4]
In 2002 a book on "the American Mosque" appeared.[5]
The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74%.[6]
The "Ground Zero mosque", a planned mosque in lower Manhattan, was the subject of controversy from 2010 on. In September 2011, a temporary 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) Islamic center opened in renovated space at the site,[7] and current plans are for a museum to be built, instead of a mosque.
A 2011 study, The American Mosque 2011, sponsored by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research (Hartford Seminary), the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, as well as the nation's largest Islamic civic and religious groups, including the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that the U.S. States with the most mosques were New York (257), California (246) and Texas (166).[6]
Through 2014, a building boom for mosques has been going on.[8]
Numerous ones mentioned for their architecture:[9]
An overview is provided.[10]
Notable individual mosques
- Group
AAIIL | Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam |
AMJ | Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat |
NoI | Nation of Islam |
SA | Saudi Arabia (Wahhabism) |
U | Unknown group (or undetermineted) |
Name | Photo | Location | State | Year | G | Remarks |
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Islamic Community Center of Anchorage, Alaska (ICCAA) Alaska First Masjid |
3901 Taft Drive, Anchorage Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Alaska | 2010 (begun) | Broke ground October 2010 in construction of Alaska's first masjid, school, and center.[11] To serve Anchorage's approximately 3,000 diverse Muslims in a 15,000-square-foot-facility (1,400 m2).[12][13][14] | ||
Mosque Tucson | Tucson | Arizona | ? | AMJ | Also known as the 'Yousaf Mosque' | |
Tucson Islamic Center, University of Arizona | 7516 North Black Canyon Highway, Tucson | Arizona | ? | U | ||
Islamic Community Center of Phoenix | Phoenix | Arizona | 1982 | |||
Baitul Hameed | Chino Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
California | 1989 | AMJ | The Baitul Hameed Mosque (English: House of the Praiseworthy) is the largest Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in the Western part of the United States with an area of 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2). | |
Islamic Center of Orange County | Garden Grove, California | California | 1976 | Asserted to be one of the largest Muslim centers in the Western Hemisphere, with almost 7,000 worshipers. | ||
Islamic Center of Irvine | Irvine, California | California | 2004 | |||
Islamic Center of Southern California | Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
California | 1952 | Very large. | ||
Sacramento Islamic Mosque | 411 V St., Sacramento, California | California | Asserted to be the oldest mosque in the United States west of the Mississippi River. | |||
Masjid Annur Islamic Center | Sacramento, California Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
California | ||||
Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami | 7173 Saranac Street, San Diego, California | California | A Sunni mosque. | |||
Islamic Center of Yuba City | Yuba City, California | California | Completed in 1994 at cost of $1.8 million and thousands of hours of sweat equity, including community members descended from Pakistani who immigrated to the area in c. 1902. It was then burnt by arson, in the first hate-crime destroying a mosque in the United States. The case received little attention at the time but is subject of 2015 documentary An American Mosque produced by David Washburn.[4] | |||
Islamic Center of Greater Hartford | Hartford and Berlin | Connecticut | Its president, Dr. M. Reza Mansoor is a Hartford Hospital cardiologist and "a long-time Trustee of the Hartford Seminary, the country’s oldest center for the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations."[15] [16] Berlin, CT, new mosque is also part of IAGH.[17] Mansoor was also founding president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut.[18][19][20] | |||
Masjid An-Noor, Bridgeport, a.k.a. Bridgepoort Islamic Society-Masjid An-Noor | Bridgeport, Connecticut | Connecticut | Its building purchased in 1991 was formerly a bank.[21]
As the largest mosque in Bridgeport area, it was subject of questions in 2010 regarding any possible association of Faisal Shahzad, the May 1, 2010 Times Square bomber who lived in Bridgeport). Demonstraters from as far away as Texas confronted the mosque in protests in August 2010.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] |
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Islamic Center of Connecticut | Windsor, Connecticut | Connecticut | ||||
Assalam Center | Boca Raton | Florida | ||||
Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam | 560 Fayetteville Road, Atlanta, Georgia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Georgia | Established when Elijah Muhammad purchased a property on Bankhead Hwy, moved later. | |||
Al-Farooq Masjid Mosque | Atlanta, Georgia |
Georgia | ||||
Islamic Community Center of Augusta | 220x220px | Augusta, Georgia | Georgia | 2012 | U | |
Mosque Foundation | 7360 W. 93rd St., Bridgeview, Illinois | Illinois | 1980 | Mosque Foundation webpage | ||
Mosque Maryam Muslim Temple No. 2 |
7351 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Illinois | 1972 | NoI | Originally a Greek Orthodox church, purchased in 1972 by the Nation of Islam. Headquarters of the Nation of Islam and of Louis Farrakhan. | |
Baitul Jamay | Chicago | Illinois | ||||
Al-Sadiq Mosque | Bronzeville neighborhood, Chicago | Illinois | 1922 | Asserted to be the oldest standing mosque in the U.S. | ||
Islamic Foundation | 300 W. High Ridge Road, Villa Park, Illinois Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Illinois | 1974 | Islamic Foundation webpage | ||
Islamic Foundation North | 1751 O'Plaine Rd, Waukegan, Illinois Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Illinois | 2004 | IFNoOnline website | ||
Masjid DarusSalam | 21W525 North Avenue, Lombard, Illinois Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Illinois | 2013 | DarusSalam Foundation webpage | ||
Muslim Community Center | 4380 N. Elston Ave., Chicago Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Illinois | 1969 | MCCChicago webpage | ||
Muslim Association of Greater Rockford | 5921 Darlene Drive, Rockford | Illinois | 1984 | MAGR website | ||
Mother Mosque of America | 1335 9th Street NW, Cedar Rapids Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Iowa | 1934 | U | ||
Masjid Omar Bin Khattab | Harvey | Louisiana | ||||
Baitur Rahman | Silver Spring, Maryland | Maryland | 1994 | AMJ | ||
Diyanet Center of America | Lanham, Maryland | Maryland | Mosque complex built with support of Turkish government. | |||
Imam Mahdi Islamic Education Center of Baltimore | 2406 Putty Hill Ave, Parkville, Baltimore County, Maryland | Maryland | 2003 | |||
Islamic Society of Western Maryland | 2036 Day Road, Hagerstown, Maryland Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Maryland | 1994 | |||
Allston Congregational Church | 31-41 Quint Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | A mosque meets in former Congregational church. | |||
Islamic Society of Boston | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | ||||
Islamic Society of Greater Lowell | Chelmsford, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | ||||
Quincy Mosque | Quincy, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 1963 | |||
Sharon Mosque | Sharon, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | Was established by Lebanese American immigrants. | |||
Worcester Mosque | Worcester, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2005 | |||
Islamic Center of America | Dearborn | Michigan | 2005 | U | ||
Dearborn Mosque | Dearborn | Michigan | 1937 | U | ||
Muslim Temple No. 1 | Detroit | Michigan | 1931 | NoI | First mosque of the Nation of Islam. | |
Al-Islah Mosque | Hamtramck, Michigan | Michigan | 2000 | Following the Sunni tradition. It was founded by immigrants from Bangladesh. | ||
Islamic Center and Mosque of Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids, Michigan | Michigan | 1986 | |||
Islamic Center of Mississippi-Starkville | 204 Herbert St, Starkville, Mississippi | Mississippi | ||||
Daar-Ul-Islam | 517 Weidman Road, Ballwin, Missouri | Missouri | One of two mosques of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis | |||
Islamic Center of Central Missouri | 201 S. Fifth St., Columbia, Missouri Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Missouri | 1983 | First ever Islamic Center in Missouri. | ||
St. Louis Islamic Center | St. Louis, Missouri | Missouri | 2010 | a Bosnian mosque | ||
Masjid As-Sabur (As-Sabur Mosque) | Las Vegas, Nevada | Nevada | ||||
Islamic Association of Long Island | 10 Park Hill Drive, Selden, New York, eastern Long Island 65 miles east of NYC | New York | 1974 | Also known as the Selden Masjid | ||
Islamic Society of Central New York | Comstock Avenue, Syracuse, New York | New York | 1981 | Sunni mosque and community center | ||
Masjid Al-Mamoor | Jamaica, New York | New York | Also known as the Jamaica Muslim Center, includes a Mosque, a school, a place for religious gathering and eating facilities, and is one of the largest multi-purpose Muslim establishments in the U.S. Located in a Bangladeshi-American neighborhood. | |||
Masjid Hamza | 200 Stuart Avenue, Valley Stream, New York | New York | ||||
Mid-Hudson Islamic Association | Wappingers Falls, New York | New York | Also known as Masjid Al-Noor (Arabicمسجد النور) | |||
Mosque No. 7 | Harlem, New York City | New York | Where Harlem where Malcolm X preached in a storefront until he split from Elijah Muhammad and left the Nation of Islam in 1964. Destroyed in a bombing in 1965, after Malcolm X's assassination. Rebuilt later as a proper mosque and known as Malcolm Shabazz Mosque or Masjid Malcolm Shabazz. | |||
Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood | 130 West 113th Street, Harlem, New York City | New York | Successor to the Sunni Muslim mosque that was named Muslim Mosque, Inc., which was started by Malcolm X after Malcolm X split from Elijah Muhammad in 1964 | |||
Hazrati Abu Bakr Siddique | Flushing, Queens Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
New York | ||||
Masjid al-Ikhlas | Newburgh Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
New York | 1992 | |||
Islamic Cultural Center of New York | 1711 Third Avenue, New York City Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
New York | 1991 | Also known as "96th Street Mosque" | ||
Park51 | 49-51 Park Place, New York City Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
New York | 2011 (temporary facility) | Proposed mosque, also known as the "Ground Zero mosque", a plan that became subject of controversy in 2010. Currently a museum, not a mosque, is planned. But in September 2011, a temporary 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) Islamic center opened in renovated space at the site.[7] | ||
Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center | New York City | New York | ||||
Noor Islamic Cultural Center | Columbus | Ohio | 2006 | U | ||
Islamic Society of Greater Dayton | Josie Street, Dayton | Ohio | Sunni | |||
Islamic Society of Greater Toledo | Toledo | Ohio | ||||
Portland Rizwan Mosque | Portland | Oregon | ? | AMJ | [31]
Posted: 07/19/2010 9:03 pm EDT |
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Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 1984 | |||
Masjd Al-Islamic | North Springfield, Rhode Island | Rhode Island | ||||
Islamic Center of Murfreesboro | Murfreesboro, Tennessee | Tennessee | 2012 | |||
East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Masjid) | 1360 Star Ct, Plano, Texas | Texas | ||||
Dallas Central Mosque of the Islamic Association of North Texas | 840 Abrams Rd, Richardson, Texas | Texas | ||||
Islamic Center of Greater Austin | 5110 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78723, United States | Texas | 1977 | |||
Islamic Center of Irving | 2555 N Esters Road, Irving | Texas | 1991 | |||
Baitus Samee, Texas | Houston | Texas | AMJ | |||
Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (Arabic: مركز دار الهجرة الاسلامي, English: Land of Migration) | Seven Corners area of unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia | Virginia | ||||
Islamic Center of Washington | Washington, D.C. | 1957 | U | |||
Fazl Mosque, also called the American Fazl Mosque | Washington, D.C. | Washington, D.C. | 1950 | Established by the Ahmadis in 1950. Served as the American headquarters of the Ahmaddiya movement in the United States until 1994 | ||
Islamic Society of Northern Wisconsin | Altoona, Wisconsin | Wisconsin | ||||
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See also
- Lists of mosques (worldwide)
- List of the oldest mosques in the world
- List of mosques in St. Louis
- Islam in the United States
- List of the oldest mosques in the world
- Places of worship in the United States
References
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- ↑ WTNH article quoting Mansoor in July 2015.
- ↑ February 2015 Hartford Courant article citing Mansoor
- ↑ Salatomatic.com listing
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- ↑ "Texas Demonstrators Plan to Gather at Mosques Through Ramadan" NBC CT article
- ↑ Pamela Geller anti-islamic site article
- ↑ New Haven Register Aug 9
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External links
- Mosques and Centers, by U.S. state, a directory of addresses & phone numbers, at BLDUSA.COM (a commercial business links directory)
- Mosques and Islamic Centers in Greater Chicago, at the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC)
- Lecture: Brief history of Islam in America, YouTube video
- The History of Islam in America - By Sulayman Nyang, YouTube video
- Islam in America, YouTube video