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Islamic Center of Washington, 2016. Islam in Washington, D.C. is the third largest religion, after Christianity and Judaism. As of 2014, Muslims were 2% of Greater Washington's population. [1] Around 50,000 Muslims live in DC. DC's Muslim history dates to the early 1600s, when the first Muslim residents were enslaved and free African Americans. [2]
The mosque was completed in 1954 and dedicated by President Dwight Eisenhower on June 28, 1957. [3] [4] The Washington diplomatic community played a leading role in the effort to construct a mosque. Egypt donated a bronze chandelier and sent specialists who wrote Qur'anic verses to adorn the mosque’s walls and ceiling.
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The Fazl Mosque in Washington, D.C. was established by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1950 and is the first mosque in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. [1] Its full title is the American Fazl Mosque, which helps to distinguish it from its sister mosque, the Fazl Mosque, London, both of which were the first mosques in the capitals of the U.S. and the U.K., respectively.
Masjid Muhammad was founded in 1960 as Nation of Islam Temple 4 with the help of Malcolm X. Since The 1980s, it has been named Masjid Muhammad and has been affiliated with mainstream Sunni Islam. [2] In August 2023, the mosque received a bomb threat. The mosque was searched by the Metropolitan Police Department and later reopened. The incident ...
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Dar Al-Hijrah was founded in 1983 by a group of university students, mostly of Arab origin, who had broken away from the Islamic Center of Washington. [4] [5] [6] It was one of the first mosques to be established in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. [7] It is also one of the area's largest and most influential mosques.
Yadgar Mosque, the "first" mosque of Rabwah. Rabwah. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community established itself in Rabwah on September 30, 1948. [4] Rabwah was a town founded and created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the time of its Second Caliph, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and was named ‘Rabwah’ by the Ahmadiyya Missionary Jalal-ud-Din Shams.