1335 9th St., NW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. County/parish: Linn.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 15, 1996. NRIS 96000516.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Mother Mosque of America, once known as The Rose of Fraternity Lodge, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, is considered the oldest still-standing purpose-built mosque in the United States, having been completed in 1934. The Al-Sadiq Mosque in Chicago and the Powers Street Mosque in New York City, founded in 1922 and 1931, respectively, but were converted from existing buildings to be used as a Muslim house of worship.
An older purpose-built mosque is the Highland Park Mosque, built in 1921 to serve immigrant workers in the Detroit Metro Area, which was sold in 1926. Another older purpose-built mosque was a mosque near Ross, North Dakota, built in 1929, which fell into ruin; a smaller mosque was built near that site to commemorate its history in 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75339454