Mosque No. 7 was the mosque in Harlem where Malcolm X preached until he left the Nation of Islam in 1964.
Opened as Temple No. 7 of the Nation of Islam at the Harlem YMCA in 1946, it "was just a storefront in 1954 when Malcolm was named minister by Elijah Muhammad."[1] When Malcolm X split from Elijah Muhammad in 1964, he opened the mosque at the Hotel Theresa on 125th Street.
Temple No. 7 was destroyed in a bombing in 1965, after Malcolm X's assassination, and was later rebuilt at 102 West 116th Street, in what was originally the Lenox Casino, on the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue.[2] The building was designed by Sabbath Brown and the new mosque was named after Malcolm X: Malcolm Shabazz Mosque No. 7. It is now used by Sunni Muslims.
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