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Mosque Maryam, also known as Muhammad Mosque #2 or Temple #2, is the headquarters of the Nation of Islam, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is at 7351 South Stony Island Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. [1] Louis Farrakhan 's headquarters are not on the premises. The building was originally the Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church [a] before it relocated to suburban Palos ...
History. In 1954 a handful of Palestinians from Beitunia émigrés on Chicago's famous Southside formed the Mosque Foundation of Chicago with the dream of one day building a structure to house the religious and cultural activities of their growing young families. One of the mosques most notable founders is Suraya Shalabi.
Christ Community Church in Zion, Illinois, formerly the Christian Catholic Church or Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, is an evangelical non-denominational church founded in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie. The city of Zion was founded by Dowie as a religious community to establish a society on the principles of the Kingdom of God. [1] Members are sometimes called Zionites (not to be confused ...
Senior White House officials are planning to meet with Arab-, Muslim- and Palestinian-American community leaders in Chicago on Thursday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN, as ...
Wilbur Glenn Voliva (March 10, 1870 – October 11, 1942) [1] was an American cult leader and Flat Earth theorist who controlled the town of Zion, Illinois, during the early 20th century.
World Business Chicago (WBC) is the official economic development organization for the City of Chicago. WBC is a public-private partnership and a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization supported by funding from the City of Chicago, philanthropies, and the business community.
Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan . The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert .
The English term "Al-Aqsa Mosque" is the translation of both al-Masjid al-Aqṣā(ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ) and Jāmiʿ al-Aqṣā(جَامِع ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ), which have distinct meanings in Arabic. [12][13][14]The former (al-Masjid al-Aqṣā) refers to the Quran's Surah 17– "the furthest mosque" – and thus is ...