The Al Sadiq Mosque (or Wabash Mosque) was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of

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. The Al-Sadiq Mosque is one of

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's earliest built

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s and the oldest standing mosque in the country today. This

was funded with the money predominantly donated by

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Ahmadi Muslim converts.

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Mufti Muhammad Sadiq arrived in America on February 15, 1920, and established 1921 the Headquarters of the

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. Muhammad Sadiq started a monthly magazine called ''

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'', which contained articles on Islam, contemporary issues of conscience and the names of new converts. This magazine still exists. Muhammad Sadiq attracted a thousands of converts in his short stay in America, most notably in

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and

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between 1922 and 1923.Islamic Movement Came to U.S. in 1920
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continued to grow and established more than 40 missions through America. Four Ahmadi mosques can be found in the region today, with demographics that are a mixture of

, Indo-Pakistani,

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, and

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served as the movement's national headquarters until 1950,Encyclopedia of Chicago: Muslims
/ref> when it were moved to the American Fazl Mosque in Washington, D.C. In 1994 the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's USA headquarters were moved to Masjid Bait ur Rahman in Silver Spring, MD.

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