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Islam is practiced by several Muslim American groups in Metro Detroit. History. The first mosque in the city was the Highland Park Mosque, and the first imams who lived in Detroit were Kalil Bazzy and Hussein Adeeb Karoub. This first mosque failed in 1922.
Jordanians and Palestinians in Metro Detroit include believers of Sunni Islam, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox Christian beliefs. Yemeni and Iraqi people include believers of the Shafi'i Sunni Muslim school of thought and the Zaidiyyah Shia Muslim school of thought.
The Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD) exists to serve the most vulnerable people within Metropolitan Detroit through the Muslim faith, Islamic principles, and a fundamental belief in assisting others. Call us +(313)584-4143
The Islamic Center of America outgrew its original Detroit location and in 2005 moved to its present location on Ford Road in Dearborn. The Detroit mosque at the center's original site is now known as the Az-Zahra Center, where prayers services are still offered.
The 9/11 hijackers were members of the militant group al-Qaida, and for some, that was damning evidence — cause to view Muslim Americans with fear and suspicion. In metro Detroit, home to the...
The oldest, largest, and most diverse Muslim American and Arab American communities in the U.S. are located in the Metro Detroit area. Christian Syrian and Lebanese immigrants first arrived in...
Last month, the church campus was sold to a group of Muslim leaders for $4.2 million, becoming a mosque as Islamic clerics led prayers inside it for the first time on Aug. 24. The center is now...
The shared commonality of criminalized identity is why many Arab Americans in Metro Detroit have been able to build interfaith and intercultural unities with Jewish Americans in the region.
The reassurance of precedent, and the predictability of its received forms, makes local histories compelling, but also dreadful for many Detroit Muslims. Historical knowledge can show how different – how “mistaken” – Muslims were in the past, and how these “mistakes” might be made again in future.
This year the organization Muslims Building Bridges resumed its “unity iftars” across mosques in Metro Detroit. It’s a chilly Thursday night in Detroit. People are parking their cars and heading into an enormous tent — decked out with chandeliers – at the Islamic Center of Detroit on Tireman Road.