Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif. Muhammad Jaunpuri shrine, Farah, Farah Province; Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine, Herat, Herat Province; Shrine of Ali Karam Allah Wajho ("the Blue Mosque"), Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province
Daayiee Abdullah (Arabic: داعي عبد الله, born Sidney Thompson) [1] [2] is an American Imam based in Washington, D.C. [1] [3] [4] Abdullah is said to be one of four living openly gay Imams in the world (the others being Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed of France, El-Farouk Khaki of Toronto's el-Tawhid Juma Circle/The Unity Mosque, and Nur Warsame of Australia).
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]
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.
The Abdullah Mosque, or the Old Royal Mosque, is an old royal mosque of Pahang located near royal mausoleum and the new mosque (Abu Bakar Royal Mosque).The mosque was built in 1928, after an 8-year construction period, during the reign of Sultan Abdullah Al-Mu’tassim Billah Shah and was officially opened on 8 January 1932 by Sultan Abu Bakar of Pahang on behalf of his father.
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.
Ahmed Abdullah was later identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni. [3] Umer Farooq is the son of Khalid Farooq, the occupant of the house in Pakistan in which they were detained. [1] He lives on the same street as the mosque with his father and his mother, Sabrina, who operates a computer business. [3]