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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 ...
Dearborn Mosque is a mosque belonging to the American Moslem Society (الجمعية الإسلامية الامريكية) in Dearborn, Michigan. It was built in 1937 by the nascent Islamic community (then mostly Sunni Muslims from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon ), and was only the second mosque constructed in the United States . [ 1 ]
The city boasts the nation’s largest per capita Muslim population and North America’s biggest mosque. Last year Dearborn became the first Arab-American-majority city in the country, with more ...
The Islamic Center of America is a Shia mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. It is the oldest Shia mosque in the United States and the largest in North America [11] [12] [13] (founded in 1963). [1] The institution known as "heart of Shiism" in the United States. [14] [15]
Growth led to a new center, the Islamic Center of America, being unveiled in 2005, at 120,000 square feet, the largest mosque in North America and the oldest Shia mosque in the United States.
Dearborn has the proportionally largest Muslim population in the United States and the largest mosque in North America. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2023, Dearborn became the first Arab majority city in the US, with 55% of its residents claiming to be of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in a 2023 census.
The Rochester Hills mosque is today about 100,000 square feet, making it what its leaders say is one of the largest Islamic centers built in Michigan in terms of space.
Islamic Center of America: Dearborn: Michigan: 2005 SH Largest mosque in the United States. Muslim Temple No. 1: Detroit: Michigan: 1931 NOI First mosque of the Nation of Islam. Islamic Center of Mississippi-Starkville: Starkville: Mississippi: Daar-ul-Islam: Ballwin: Missouri: 1995 S One of two mosques of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St ...