^ a b Detroit Free Press: "Longtime leader of Dearborn mosque leaves amid split" Archived at the Wayback Machine JBy Niraj Warikoo.President and Fellows of Harvard College and Diana Eck". ^ a b c "Islamic Center of America (CJ) - The Pluralism Project.Muslims of the Heartland How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest. ^ "Official Our Story – Islamic Center of America".Many in the community believed that the vandalism was the result of recurrent sectarian tensions within the American Sunni Muslim community over the Iraq War and its Shia–Sunni conflict. The mosque was vandalized in January 2007 with anti-Shia graffiti. The Detroit mosque at the center's original site is now known as the Az-Zahra Center, where prayers services are still offered. The Islamic Center of America outgrew its original Detroit location and in 2005 moved to its present location on Ford Road in Dearborn. Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini led the center in 1997, several years after Imam Chirri's passing, and assumed the role of religious leader for 18 years. The property for the construction of the Joy Road Mosque was purchased from the Ford Motor Company. The center first opened its doors at a location in Detroit on Septemwith financial support from the local community who pledged their homes as collateral along with a gift from Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Imam Muhammad Chirri of Lebanon was invited to lead the newly-formed Islamic Center Foundation Society, which would later turn into the Islamic Center of Detroit, and later the Islamic Center of America. The growing number of Muslims in the Detroit area in the mid-20th century sought out a religious leader from the Middle East to serve the community. History The center's original 1963 mosque in Detroit is pictured in the background in 2002. The institution was founded in 1949 by Mohamad Jawad Chirri, who remained its director until his death in 1994. The Islamic Center of America is located at 19500 Ford Road in Dearborn. ![]() With its large Shia Arab population (consisting mostly of Iraqis and Lebanese), Dearborn is often called the "heart of Islam", especially for Shi'ism, in the United States. Although the institution dates back to 1963, the center's current mosque opened in 2005. facility is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest purpose-built Shia mosque in the United States, as well as the second oldest mosque in the United States after 'Asser El Jadeed which originally opened in 1924 in Michigan City, Indiana. 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.
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