The Sharon Mosque is a
mosque located in
Sharon, Massachusetts, United States.
History
The mosque was founded in 1993 as an extension of the
Islamic Center of New England The Islamic Center of New England (ICNE) ( Arabic: المركز الاسلامي بنيو انجلند) is an Islamic organization incorporated in the state of Massachusetts in the early 1960s.
History
The Islamic Center of New England
A Histor ...
(ICNE) which was established by
Lebanese American immigrants in
Quincy,
Massachusetts. The mosque is situated on 55 acres formerly used for a horse farm. The main building is a social hall large enough to accommodate 500 people.
School
The second building behind the mosque houses an Islamic elementary school, Al Noor School, and weekend school.
Former president of the school, Abdul Badi Abousamra was a prominent Boston doctor, Muslim activist, and father of
Ahmad Abousamra
Ahmad Abousamra ( ar, أحمد أبو سمرة, ʾAḥmad Abū Samrah; 19 September 1981 – January 2017), known also as Abu Sulayman ash-Shami and Abu Maysarah ash-Shami, was a Syrian-American Islamic militant and ideologue who served as the c ...
, who is on the
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.
Imams
Talal Eid Talal Eid (Arabic: إمام طلال عید) (born 1951) is an imam from Lebanon who has combated the portrayal of Muslims as terrorists and served as Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Biography
Talal Eid was ...
was the first Imam of the Sharon mosque as well as the sister mosque in Quincy. Eid left ICNE in 2005 after creeping radicalism put him increasingly at odds in the late 1990s with the board of directors.
In 1998,
Muhammad Masood became Imam of the Sharon Mosque. In November 2006, he was detained by federal immigration agents for visa violations. In August 2007, he was arrested on criminal visa fraud charges. He pled guilty to five counts of visa fraud and volunteered for deportation in February 2008.
After leaving the country, he became spokesman for the Pakistani terrorist organization
Jamaat-ud-Dawah
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT; ur, ; literally ''Army of the Good'', translated as ''Army of the Righteous'', or ''Army of the Pure'' and alternatively spelled as ''Lashkar-e-Tayyiba'', ''Lashkar-e-Toiba'', ''Lashkar-i-Taiba'', ''Lashkar-i-Tayyeba'') ...
.
Interim Imam and Egyptian native, Khalid Nasr, was Imam of both Sharon and
Quincy Mosques.
After a difficult search, Abdur Rahman Ahmad, became the new Imam in 2015.
* 1993-1998:
Talal Eid Talal Eid (Arabic: إمام طلال عید) (born 1951) is an imam from Lebanon who has combated the portrayal of Muslims as terrorists and served as Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Biography
Talal Eid was ...
* 1998-2006:
Muhammad Masood
* 2006-2015: Khalid Nasr
* 2015-current: Abdur Rahman Ahmad
See also
*
List of mosques in the Americas
*
Lists of mosques
*
List of mosques in the United States
References
External links
* Controversies around the Sharon Mosque
, from the Boston Globe
Buildings and structures in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Lebanese-American culture in Massachusetts
Mosques in Massachusetts
Sharon, Massachusetts
1993 establishments in Massachusetts
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