Dearborn Mosque
42°18′15.9″N 83°08′37.0″W / 42.304417°N 83.143611°W / 42.304417; -83.143611
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 building is three stories high and almost an entire city block on the intersection of Vernor and Dix Streets.
The number of people attending grew rapidly through the 1960s to 1980s. In the early 1980s, the mosque obtained a court order permitting it to broadcast the call to prayer using loudspeakers, overruling objections from some of its neighbors; it was the first mosque in America to do so. The court ruled that it was the Muslim equivalent of church bells.[1][2]
Dearborn Mosque is not to be confused with the Islamic Center of America, also in Dearborn, which was the nation's largest mosque when it opened in 2005.[3]
See also
Michigan portal
Islam portal
References
- ^ a b "In the Way of the Prophet: Ideologies and Institutions in Dearborn, Michigan, America's Muslim Capitol". The Next American City. October 2003. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "History". American Moslem Society. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "New Dearborn mosque to be the nation's largest". The Michigan Daily. January 7, 2004. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
External links
- Official website
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Dearborn, Michigan
- Dearborn PS
- Dearborn HS
- Edsel Ford HS
- Fordson HS
- Dearborn Center for Math, Science and Technology
- Divine Child HS
- Henry Ford Academy
- Dearborn Mosque
- Islamic Center of America
- St. Sarkis Church
- Dearborn City Hall Complex
- The Henry Ford (museum and Greenfield Village)
- Arab American National Museum
- Commandant's Quarters (Dearborn Historical Museum)
- The Dearborn Inn
- Edward Hotel
- Fair Lane
- Ford River Rouge Complex
- Dearborn Ice Skating Center
- Ford-Wyoming Drive-In
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Dearborn Center for Math, Science and Technology serves Dearborn resident but is in Dearborn Heights.
Dearborn Center for Math, Science and Technology serves Dearborn resident but is in Dearborn Heights.
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