List of mosques in the United States

This is a list of notable mosques in the United States of America.

Selected history of mosques in the United States

A mosque, or masjid, can be defined as any place that Muslims pray facing to Mecca, and is not necessarily a building; by that meaning there were mosques in the United States by 1731 or earlier. Muslim Job ben Solomon (1701-1773), an African-American who was kidnapped into slavery in Senegal or Gambia, is documented by his slave narrative memoir to have prayed in the forest of Kent Island, Maryland, where he was brought during 1731-33.^[1]

Some sources assert that what is likely the first American mosque building was a mosque in Biddeford, Maine that was founded in 1915 by Albanian Muslims. A Muslim cemetery still existed there in 1996.^[2][3]

However the first "purpose-built" mosque building was probably a mosque opened in 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. It was close to the famous Highland Park Ford Plant which began mass, assembly-line production of Ford Model T cars in 1913, and where "hundreds of Arab American men" came to work. This mosque included Sunni, Shiite and Ahmadi Muslims, and was funded by Muhammad Karoub, a real estate developer.^[1]

The Mother Mosque of America, built in 1934 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is asserted to be the oldest still-existing mosque building in the U.S. Also is asserted to be the oldest standing mosque in the U.S. is the Al-Sadiq Mosque, built in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.

Nation of Islam mosques, mostly of African Americans, are often in storefronts or former churches.^[1]

It has been estimated that there were somewhat more than 100 mosques in the U.S. in 1970, but immigration of more than a million Muslims since then led to hundreds more being built.^[1]

In 1994 the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in California, was destroyed by fire set in a hate-crime, and is so far the only mosque destroyed by a hate-crime in U.S. history. It had just been completed at cost of $1.8 million plus sweat equity of the Muslims of its rural community, including descendants of Pakistani who immigrated to the area c. 1902. Its story, including its rebuilding, is told in David Washburn's 2012 documentary film An American Mosque.^[4]

In 2002 a book on "the American Mosque" appeared.^[5]

The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74%.^[6]

The "Ground Zero mosque", a planned mosque in lower Manhattan, was the subject of controversy from 2010 on. In September 2011, a temporary 4,000-square-foot (370 m²) Islamic center opened in renovated space at the site,^[7] and current plans are for a museum to be built, instead of a mosque.

A 2011 study, The American Mosque 2011, sponsored by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research (Hartford Seminary), the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, as well as the nation's largest Islamic civic and religious groups, including the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that the U.S. States with the most mosques were New York (257), California (246) and Texas (166).^[6]

Through 2014, a building boom for mosques has been going on.^[8]

Numerous ones mentioned for their architecture:^[9]

An overview is provided.^[10]

Notable individual mosques

Group

AAIIL	Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
AMJ	Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
NoI	Nation of Islam
SA	Saudi Arabia (Wahhabism)
U	Unknown group (or undetermineted)

Name	Photo	Location	State	Year	G	Remarks
Islamic Community Center of Anchorage, Alaska (ICCAA) Alaska First Masjid		3901 Taft Drive, Anchorage 61°08′54″N 149°51′43″W / 61.14843°N 149.86206°W	Alaska	2010 (begun)		Broke ground October 2010 in construction of Alaska's first masjid, school, and center.[11] To serve Anchorage's approximately 3,000 diverse Muslims in a 15,000-square-foot-facility (1,400 m^2).[12][13][14]
Mosque Tucson		Tucson	Arizona	?	AMJ	Also known as the 'Yousaf Mosque'
Tucson Islamic Center, University of Arizona		7516 North Black Canyon Highway, Tucson	Arizona	?	U
Islamic Community Center of Phoenix		Phoenix	Arizona	1982
Baitul Hameed		Chino 34°02′11″N 117°42′22″W / 34.0365°N 117.7062°W	California	1989	AMJ	The Baitul Hameed Mosque (English: House of the Praiseworthy) is the largest Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in the Western part of the United States with an area of 19,000 square feet (1,800 m^2).
Islamic Center of Orange County		Garden Grove, California	California	1976		Asserted to be one of the largest Muslim centers in the Western Hemisphere, with almost 7,000 worshipers.
Islamic Center of Irvine		Irvine, California	California	2004
Islamic Center of Southern California		Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 34°03′59″N 118°17′29″W / 34.066384°N 118.291312°W	California	1952		Very large.
Sacramento Islamic Mosque		411 V St., Sacramento, California	California			Asserted to be the oldest mosque in the United States west of the Mississippi River.
Masjid Annur Islamic Center		Sacramento, California 38°29′58″N 121°26′21″W / 38.49944°N 121.43917°W	California
Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami		7173 Saranac Street, San Diego, California	California			A Sunni mosque.
Islamic Center of Yuba City		Yuba City, California	California			Completed in 1994 at cost of $1.8 million and thousands of hours of sweat equity, including community members descended from Pakistani who immigrated to the area in c. 1902. It was then burnt by arson, in the first hate-crime destroying a mosque in the United States. The case received little attention at the time but is subject of 2015 documentary An American Mosque produced by David Washburn.[4]
Islamic Center of Greater Hartford		Hartford and Berlin	Connecticut			Its president, Dr. M. Reza Mansoor is a Hartford Hospital cardiologist and "a long-time Trustee of the Hartford Seminary, the country’s oldest center for the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations."[15] [16] Berlin, CT, new mosque is also part of IAGH.[17] Mansoor was also founding president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut.[18][19][20]
Masjid An-Noor, Bridgeport, a.k.a. Bridgepoort Islamic Society-Masjid An-Noor		Bridgeport, Connecticut	Connecticut			Its building purchased in 1991 was formerly a bank.[21] As the largest mosque in Bridgeport area, it was subject of questions in 2010 regarding any possible association of Faisal Shahzad, the May 1, 2010 Times Square bomber who lived in Bridgeport). Demonstraters from as far away as Texas confronted the mosque in protests in August 2010.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Islamic Center of Connecticut		Windsor, Connecticut	Connecticut
Assalam Center		Boca Raton	Florida
Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam		560 Fayetteville Road, Atlanta, Georgia 33°44′19″N 84°18′39″W / 33.7385°N 84.3108°W	Georgia			Established when Elijah Muhammad purchased a property on Bankhead Hwy, moved later.
Al-Farooq Masjid Mosque		Atlanta, Georgia	Georgia
Islamic Community Center of Augusta		Augusta, Georgia	Georgia	2012	U
Honolulu Mosque		Honolulu, Oahu	Hawaii			Muslim Association of Hawaii
Mosque Foundation		7360 W. 93rd St., Bridgeview, Illinois	Illinois	1980		Mosque Foundation webpage
Mosque Maryam Muslim Temple No. 2		7351 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago 41°45′39″N 87°35′6.2″W / 41.76083°N 87.585056°W	Illinois	1972	NoI	Originally a Greek Orthodox church, purchased in 1972 by the Nation of Islam. Headquarters of the Nation of Islam and of Louis Farrakhan.
Baitul Jamay		Chicago	Illinois
Al-Sadiq Mosque		Bronzeville neighborhood, Chicago	Illinois	1922		Asserted to be the oldest standing mosque in the U.S.
Islamic Foundation		300 W. High Ridge Road, Villa Park, Illinois 41°52′04″N 87°59′09″W / 41.867913°N 87.985876°W	Illinois	1974		Islamic Foundation webpage
Islamic Foundation North		1751 O'Plaine Rd, Waukegan, Illinois 42°19′41″N 87°54′47″W / 42.328052°N 87.913123°W	Illinois	2004		IFNoOnline website
Masjid DarusSalam		21W525 North Avenue, Lombard, Illinois 41°54′11″N 88°02′43″W / 41.903073°N 88.045311°W	Illinois	2013		DarusSalam Foundation webpage
Muslim Community Center		4380 N. Elston Ave., Chicago 41°57′37″N 87°43′44″W / 41.960164°N 87.729012°W	Illinois	1969		MCCChicago webpage
Muslim Association of Greater Rockford		5921 Darlene Drive, Rockford	Illinois	1984		MAGR website
Mother Mosque of America		1335 9th Street NW, Cedar Rapids 41°59′10.69″N 91°41′2.2″W / 41.9863028°N 91.683944°W	Iowa	1934	U
Masjid Omar Bin Khattab		Harvey	Louisiana
Baitur Rahman		Silver Spring, Maryland	Maryland	1994	AMJ
Diyanet Center of America		Lanham, Maryland	Maryland			Mosque complex built with support of Turkish government.
Imam Mahdi Islamic Education Center of Baltimore		2406 Putty Hill Ave, Parkville, Baltimore County, Maryland	Maryland	2003
Islamic Society of Western Maryland		2036 Day Road, Hagerstown, Maryland 39°36′19.68″N 77°41′1.71″W / 39.6054667°N 77.6838083°W	Maryland	1994
Allston Congregational Church		31-41 Quint Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts	Massachusetts			A mosque meets in former Congregational church.
Islamic Society of Boston		Cambridge, Massachusetts	Massachusetts
Islamic Society of Greater Lowell		Chelmsford, Massachusetts	Massachusetts
Quincy Mosque		Quincy, Massachusetts	Massachusetts	1963
Sharon Mosque		Sharon, Massachusetts	Massachusetts			Was established by Lebanese American immigrants.
Worcester Mosque		Worcester, Massachusetts	Massachusetts	2005
Islamic Center of America		Dearborn	Michigan	2005	U
Dearborn Mosque		Dearborn	Michigan	1937	U
Muslim Temple No. 1		Detroit	Michigan	1931	NoI	First mosque of the Nation of Islam.
Al-Islah Mosque		Hamtramck, Michigan	Michigan	2000		Following the Sunni tradition. It was founded by immigrants from Bangladesh.
Islamic Center and Mosque of Grand Rapids		Grand Rapids, Michigan	Michigan	1986
Islamic Center of Mississippi-Starkville		204 Herbert St, Starkville, Mississippi	Mississippi
Daar-Ul-Islam		517 Weidman Road, Ballwin, Missouri	Missouri			One of two mosques of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis
Islamic Center of Central Missouri		201 S. Fifth St., Columbia, Missouri 38°56′5″N 92°19′55″W / 38.93472°N 92.33194°W	Missouri	1983		First ever Islamic Center in Missouri.
St. Louis Islamic Center		St. Louis, Missouri	Missouri	2010		a Bosnian mosque
Masjid As-Sabur (As-Sabur Mosque)		Las Vegas, Nevada	Nevada
Islamic Association of Long Island		10 Park Hill Drive, Selden, New York, eastern Long Island 65 miles east of NYC	New York	1974		Also known as the Selden Masjid
Islamic Society of Central New York		Comstock Avenue, Syracuse, New York	New York	1981		Sunni mosque and community center
Masjid Al-Mamoor		Jamaica, New York	New York			Also known as the Jamaica Muslim Center, includes a Mosque, a school, a place for religious gathering and eating facilities, and is one of the largest multi-purpose Muslim establishments in the U.S. Located in a Bangladeshi-American neighborhood.
Masjid Hamza		200 Stuart Avenue, Valley Stream, New York	New York
Mid-Hudson Islamic Association		Wappingers Falls, New York	New York			Also known as Masjid Al-Noor (Arabicمسجد النور)
Mosque No. 7		Harlem, New York City	New York			Where Harlem where Malcolm X preached in a storefront until he split from Elijah Muhammad and left the Nation of Islam in 1964. Destroyed in a bombing in 1965, after Malcolm X's assassination. Rebuilt later as a proper mosque and known as Malcolm Shabazz Mosque or Masjid Malcolm Shabazz.
Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood		130 West 113th Street, Harlem, New York City	New York			Successor to the Sunni Muslim mosque that was named Muslim Mosque, Inc., which was started by Malcolm X after Malcolm X split from Elijah Muhammad in 1964
Hazrati Abu Bakr Siddique		Flushing, Queens 40°46′6.08″N 73°49′30.28″W / 40.7683556°N 73.8250778°W	New York
Masjid al-Ikhlas		Newburgh 41°30′0″N 74°01′49″W / 41.50000°N 74.03028°W	New York		1992
Islamic Cultural Center of New York		1711 Third Avenue, New York City 40°47′7″N 73°56′55″W / 40.78528°N 73.94861°W	New York	1991		Also known as "96th Street Mosque"
Park51		49-51 Park Place, New York City 40°42′49″N 74°00′36″W / 40.71361°N 74.01000°W	New York	2011 (temporary facility)		Proposed mosque, also known as the "Ground Zero mosque", a plan that became subject of controversy in 2010. Currently a museum, not a mosque, is planned. But in September 2011, a temporary 4,000-square-foot (370 m^2) Islamic center opened in renovated space at the site.[7]
Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center		New York City	New York
Noor Islamic Cultural Center		Columbus	Ohio	2006	U
Islamic Society of Greater Dayton		Josie Street, Dayton	Ohio		Sunni
Islamic Society of Greater Toledo		Toledo	Ohio
Portland Rizwan Mosque		Portland	Oregon	?	AMJ	[31] Posted: 07/19/2010 9:03 pm EDT
Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen		Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	1984
Masjd Al-Islamic		North Springfield, Rhode Island	Rhode Island
Islamic Center of Murfreesboro		Murfreesboro, Tennessee	Tennessee	2012
East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Masjid)		1360 Star Ct, Plano, Texas	Texas
Dallas Central Mosque of the Islamic Association of North Texas		840 Abrams Rd, Richardson, Texas	Texas
Islamic Center of Greater Austin		5110 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78723, United States	Texas	1977
Islamic Center of Irving		2555 N Esters Road, Irving	Texas	1991
Baitus Samee, Texas		Houston	Texas		AMJ
Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (Arabic: مركز دار الهجرة الاسلامي, English: Land of Migration)		Seven Corners area of unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia	Virginia
Islamic Center of Washington			Washington, D.C.	1957	U
Fazl Mosque, also called the American Fazl Mosque		Washington, D.C.	Washington, D.C.	1950		Established by the Ahmadis in 1950. Served as the American headquarters of the Ahmaddiya movement in the United States until 1994
Islamic Society of Northern Wisconsin		Altoona, Wisconsin	Wisconsin
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See also

• Lists of mosques (worldwide)
• List of the oldest mosques in the world
• List of mosques in St. Louis
• Islam in the United States
• List of the oldest mosques in the world
• Places of worship in the United States

References

1. Edward E. Curtis IV (August 29, 2010). "Five myths about mosques in America". Washington Post.
2. Queen, Edward L., Stephen Prothero and Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. (1996). The Encyclopedia of American Religious History. New York: Facts on File.
3. Ghazali, Abdul Sattar (August 4, 2001). "The Mosques in America: A National Portrait by CAIR: The number of mosque attendants increasing rapidly in America". American Muslim Perspective.
4. "An American Mosque". documentary produced by David Washburn and accompanying website (documentary first aired nation-wide on PBS July 11, 2015)
5. Akel Ismail Kahera (2002). Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics. UT Press.
6. "Islamic places of worship in U.S. up 74% since 2000 – USATODAY.com". Usatoday30.usatoday.com. 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
7. Abbie Fentress Swanson (September 21, 2011). "Park 51 Opens Renovated Space with Photo Exhibit of NYC Immigrant Children". WNYC Culture. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
8. Tamara Audi (August 14, 2014). "A New Mosque Rises--in Alaska: Construction Is Part of a Building Boom Nationwide as Muslim Population Rises". Wall Street Journal. (see intro)
9. Omar Khalidi (2001). "Import, Adapt, Innovate: Mosque Design in the United States". Aramco World.
10. Hesham A. Hassaballa (August 31, 2012). "A Glimpse into the American Mosque within Islam, Religion and the Public Square". The Witherspoon Institute.
11. Masjid Building Flyer
12. Julia O'Malley (December 5, 2012). "Alaskan Muslims raising the roof of state’s first mosque". Aljazeera.com.
13. "World Mosque list". Mosquelist.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
14. "Masjid in Alaska - Mosque in Alaska - Islam in Alaska - Muslims in Alaska - Islamic Community Center Anchorage Alaska - Alaska Muslim - ICCAA Alaska". Alaskamasjid.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
15. this recent Fairfield Daily Voice article re speaker event
16. Fairfield Citizen article
17. Search hits in Fairfield Citizen
18. Hartford Courant article on panel event including Mansoor
19. WTNH article quoting Mansoor in July 2015.
20. February 2015 Hartford Courant article citing Mansoor
21. Salatomatic.com listing
22. dnainfo
23. NY Post
24. WND political website article aug 8
25. this Fairfield Citizen article
26. CT Post article
27. Aug 12 CT Post
28. "Texas Demonstrators Plan to Gather at Mosques Through Ramadan" NBC CT article
29. Pamela Geller anti-islamic site article
30. New Haven Register Aug 9
31. Nancy Haught (July 19, 2010). "Ahmadi Sect Struggles For Recognition, Respect From Other Muslims". Religion News Service / Huffington Post.

External links

• Mosques and Centers, by U.S. state, a directory of addresses & phone numbers, at BLDUSA.COM (a commercial business links directory)
• Mosques and Islamic Centers in Greater Chicago, at the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC)
• Lecture: Brief history of Islam in America, YouTube video
• The History of Islam in America - By Sulayman Nyang, YouTube video
• Islam in America, YouTube video