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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 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 ...
In the 2022 Michigan elections, there was a shift in east Dearborn (heavily Arab and Muslim) toward the Republican Party as LGBTQ+ materials in schools became a political issue. According to Niraj Warikoo of The Detroit News , "Democrats still won the city overall by a comfortable margin".
Michigan’s Muslim and Arab-American voters may have made all the difference in Trump’s historic victory, in which he swept all seven swing states to earn 312 electoral votes.
Biden administration officials traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, Thursday for private meetings with Muslim and Arab American community leaders, as the president seeks to repair relations with a key ...
That is why the response of local Arab and Muslim leaders who vocally slammed a “death to America” chant by a few attendees at an April 5 rally in Dearborn, Michigan, was so vitally important ...
Muslim American Youth Academy (MAYA) of the Islamic Center of America - Dearborn [22] As of 2015 Michigan Islamic Academy, a K-12 Islamic day school in Ann Arbor, has students who come from Metro Detroit. [23]
As of 2014, Susan Dabaja, the city council president of Dearborn, is a Muslim Arab-American and the majority of the members of the council are Arab. [ 58 ] In 2021 Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press reported that Yemeni Americans in Dearborn were advocating for more of a role in their city's government.