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The center was founded in 1952 and occupied a rented property on Fountain Avenue in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. When the center was established, it was the only mosque in Greater Los Angeles. It served a very small community of Muslim families and many early attendants were foreign Muslims attending local universities. [1]
Westgate Center, located in San Jose, California is a 645,000 square foot center. While many of the larger stores have their own exterior entrances, there is an interior mall corridor housing smaller stores like Skechers, Torrid, and Carter's, along with a small food court.
Initially built in 1989 at a cost of $2.5 million, entirely from donations of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it is located east of Los Angeles in Chino, California, just inside San Bernardino County. The San Gabriel Mountains provide a beautiful backdrop to this Spanish-inspired mosque with modern amenities.
Tehrangeles (Persian: تهرانجلس) (or Little Persia) is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States.
Los Gatos is Spanish for "The Cats". [10] The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos ("The Corner of the Cats"), where the cats refers to the cougars (mountain lions) and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
Dry Creek Road — named after the flood of 1866 that changed the flow of the Los Gatos Creek, turning this section into a dry creek river bed, later converted to a roadway. [3] Eastus Drive — named after San Jose Deputy City Manager, John Eastus; Emory Street — named after Methodist Bishop John Emory [1]
Little Arabia is an ethnic enclave in western Anaheim, California, [1] the center for Orange County's Arab Americans, who number more than 24,000 (As of 2000). [2] It has been referred to as "Little Gaza" which was a riff on the nearby Garza Island neighborhoods.
The King Fahad Mosque (also King Fahd Mosque) is a mosque located in Culver City, California in Los Angeles County, US. The mosque has a capacity of 2,000 worshippers and a 72-foot high (22 m) minaret. [1] The complex on about 77,500 square feet (7,200 m 2) of land contains other facilities including a lecture and meeting hall and classrooms. [2]