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There is a notable population of American Muslims in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.Dallas-Fort Worth is home to sixty-two Sunni mosques and five Shia mosques. [1] [2] According to Abdel Rahman Murphy, a Chicago-born, Irving-based Islamic teacher and Muslim community leader, other U.S.-based Muslims now refer to Dallas as the "Medina of America". [3]
The Masjid Al-Ansar Islamic Community Center is a Sunni Islam mosque located in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis, in the United States. [1] The current mosque building was opened in 2022. [2] The chief Imam of the mosque is Imam Mohamed Dukuly, a prominent Imam in Minnesota and a native of Liberia. [3]
The built-up area of the mosque is occupies an area of 15,684 m 2 (168,820 sq ft), with the total area of the mosque being 256,680 m 2 (2,762,900 sq ft). [9] With an indoor capacity of 6,433 worshippers, and an outdoor capacity of 14,029, its total capacity would be over 20,000.
Organisers said they were working hard to overcome a stigma around addiction in the Muslim community.
The mosque has a capacity of 200 men and 40 women and is located next to the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. [59] Masjid Vega Alta: Vega Alta: Puerto Rico: 1992 Largest mosque in Puerto Rico, with a capacity of 1,200 men and 120 women. [59] Masjid Montehiedra: San Juan: Puerto Rico: 2007 The mosque has a capacity of 400 men and ...
The American Fazl Mosque was the first mosque in the capital district of the United States. In 1950, the American Ahmadiyya movement shifted their headquarters to Washington, D.C., and established the American Fazl Mosque which served as the headquarters for over four decades, until the early 1990s. [ 45 ]
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, also known as the Haram al-Sharif, or the Temple Mount [7] Masjid Al-Aqsa ("the Farthest Mosque"), also known as the "Al Aqsa compound", is a holy site in Shia and Sunni Islam and is located in the Old City of Jerusalem, and is widely regarded by Jews as the Temple Mount, the site of the Holy Temple.
The Islamic Association of Long Island (also known as the Selden Masjid) is a mosque at 10 Park Hill Drive in Selden, New York, eastern Long Island, 65 miles east of New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was founded in 1974 and is the oldest chartered mosque on Long Island.