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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 Greater Allen Cathedral of New York is an African Methodist Episcopal church located in Jamaica, Queens, New York. [1] [2] The congregation currently has over 24,500 members, making it one of the largest churches in the United States. [3] Its annual budget exceeds $72 million.
Organisers said they were working hard to overcome a stigma around addiction in the Muslim community.
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.
The Credit Union of Texas Event Center (formerly Allen Event Center) is an American 6,275 fixed-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Allen, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. The arena opened in 2009 under the name Allen Event Center. Construction cost was $52.6 million ($63.5 million in 2020 dollars).
The 120,000 sq. ft. facility is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest purpose-built Shia mosque in the United States, [1] as well as the second oldest mosque in the United States after 'Asser El Jadeed which originally opened in 1924 in Michigan City, Indiana. [2] The Islamic Center of America is located at 19500 Ford Road in ...
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 current mosque dates from a total reconstruction starting in 836 under the Aghlabids, with further restorations and additions in later periods. [36] Sidi Okba Mosque: Sidi Okba Algeria: 686–1025: Mosque and tomb dated between 686 and 1025, starting with the tomb in 686. The mosque was subsequently built around it. [37] Al-Zaytuna Mosque ...