Dearborn Mosque

American Moslem Society (Dearborn Mosque)
الجمعية الاسلامية الامريكيى (مسجد ديربورن)٠
File:Dearborn Mosque Michigan.JPG Masjid Dearborn
Basic information
Location	Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.
Affiliation	Sunni
Leadership	Imam(s):Sheikh Hamood Afif
Website	masjiddearborn.org
Completed	1937
Capacity	2,000
Dome(s)	1
Minaret(s)	2

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. 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 neighbours; 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 90s 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.

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.

See also

• Islam in Metro Detroit

External links

• American Moslem Society site on Masjid Dearborn (Dearborn Mosque)