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Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities. Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, 1983. ISBN 0943560004, ISBN 9780943560007. Ameri, Anan and Yvonne Lockwood. Arab Americans in Metro Detroit: A Pictorial History. Arcadia Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0738519235, ISBN 9780738519234. Detroit Arab American Study Team.
The Islamic Center of America original 1963 mosque in Detroit is pictured in the background in 2002. The character changed in Detroit's Islam in the 1970s when the conversions of the members of the Nation of Islam to mainstream Islam took place, and when immigration from India, southern Lebanon, Pakistan, and Palestine occurred. [ 1] B.
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.
Dearborn Mosque is a mosque belonging to the American Moslem 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. [1] The building ...
Website. www .icofa .com. The Islamic Center of America ( Arabic: ٱلْمَرْكَز ٱلْإِسْلَامِيّ فِي أَمْرِيكَا, al-Markaz al-ʾIslāmīy Fī ʾAmrīkā) is a mosque located in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States. The 120,000 sq. ft. facility is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest purpose ...
Staff at the Islamic Center saw the value in addressing mental health issues head-on, establishing My Mental Wellness as its own faith-based nonprofit clinic in 2018.
[30] [31] The Arab Muslim community has built the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America, [32] and the Dearborn Mosque. More Iraqi refugees have come, fleeing the continued war in their country since 2003. Warren Avenue has become the commercial center of the Arab-American community.
Islam portal Politics portal. v. t. e. The Nation of Islam ( NOI) is a religious organization in the United States founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A black nationalist organization, the NOI focuses its attention on the African diaspora, especially on African Americans. While describing itself as Islamic, its religious tenets, though ...