Dearborn Mosque

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American Muslim Society
Basic information
Location Dearborn, Michigan
Website http://www.masjiddearborn.org/history.html
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Dearborn Mosque is a Sunni Mosque belonging to the American Muslim Society 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.

Since the 1980s the conservative form of Sunni Islam has dominated the mosque, and it has become known as the Yemeni Dearborn Mosque.[1]

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.[2]

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  1. ^ a b In the Way of the Prophet: Ideologies and Institutions in Dearborn, Michigan, America's Muslim Capitol, at AmericanCity.org
  2. ^ New Dearborn mosque to be the nation's largest. Michigan Daily, 2004-01-07. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
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