Website masjiddearborn.org Opened 1937 Number of minarets 2 | State Michigan Completed 1937 Capacity 2,000 Number of domes 1 | |
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Leadership Imam(s):Sheikh Hamood Afif Similar Islamic Center of America, Dearborn Ice Skating Center, Arab American National, St Sarkis Church, John D Dingell Transit C | ||
Dearborn Mosque is a mosque belonging to the American Muslim 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. 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.
In the 1980s and 1990s a conservative form of Sunni Islam dominated the mosque, but in the early 2000s it was known as the Yemeni Zaydi Dearborn Mosque, after a Shi'a group from Yemen.
The mosque is led by Sheikh Hamood Afif, who follows the madhab of Shafii, as do the majority of Muslims who currently attend.
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.