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In 1947, following the release of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad from prison, that a Nation of Islam mosque was established in Baltimore, on Ensor Street. Nation of Islam, a Black-oriented form of Islam, separate from mainstream Islam, had been founded in Michigan in 1930. The mosque grew quickly in the late 1940s and early 1950s ...
The Islamic Society of Baltimore was founded in 1969 by three Muslim physicians, [1] one of whom was Mohamed Z. Awad, an Egyptian-born physician at Towson, Maryland. [2] [3] Awad co-founded the society due to Muslims' concerns to "maintain their religion for themselves and to pass on their Islamic heritage to their children in the face of strong pressures toward assimilation."
In 1994, the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in California, was destroyed by a fire set in a hate-crime, the first mosque destroyed by a hate crime in U.S. history. It had just been completed at the cost of $1.8 million plus sweat equity of the Muslims of its rural community, including descendants of Pakistan who immigrated to the area c. 1902.
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The Imam Mahdi Islamic Education Center (IMIEC) of Baltimore is a mosque and Islamic education center in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. [1] It is located on 2406 Putty Hill Ave, Parkville, Maryland, 21234; the site was purchased in 2003 by donation of a local Muslim. As with many American mosques, there is not a permanent sheikh ...
The DCA's campus is built in the Ottoman style. The mosque at the Diyanet Center of America. The organization was established as the Turkish American Islamic Foundation in 1993, and as the scope of services expanded it was renamed to the Turkish American Community Center (TACC) in 2003. [6]
The Islamic Society of Western Maryland (ISWMD), located in Hagerstown, Maryland, [1] is a mosque which was the first permanent structure to be built specifically to serve as a mosque in Western Maryland. The mosque was built in 1994, after the American Revolutionary War-era home proved to be insufficient to accommodate the growing community.
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