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The Mosque Ibrahim Ibin Abdul Aziz Al-Ibrahim ( es, Mezquita Sheikh Ibrahim Bin Abdulaziz Al Ibrahim) or Caracas Mosque is a
CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET ''"It is like a dream come true for us,"'' Hassan Majzoub, president of Venezuela's Islamic Center, said of the four-year project, culminated in March 1993 with the inauguration of the Caracas Islamic Center. Mr. Majzoub, a shopkeeper who emigrated from Lebanon in 1968, acknowledged that the 100,000 Muslims in Venezuela were easily surpassed in number by Muslims in Argentina, Brazil and the United States. This mosque is equipped with the following amenities. * A 1200 m² room for religious festivals, conferences and multiple uses from sports to social, has basketball, soccer and volleyball courts, also equipped with restrooms for men and women. * A classroom equipped for the teaching of the Arabic language and the Islamic religion. * A fully equipped funeral room to wash the dead and prepare them for burial. * Two apartments. * A fully equipped kitchen with an adjoining room. * Five administrative offices. * A room to receive visitors. * External and internal deposits and annexes. * Parking with capacity for 100 cars * There are an estimated 50,000 Muslims in Caracas, most of them of Syrian and Lebanese origin.
Caracas Getting Continent's Biggest Mosque
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The Mosque Ibrahim Ibin Abdul Aziz Al-Ibrahim ( es, Mezquita Sheikh Ibrahim Bin Abdulaziz Al Ibrahim) or Caracas Mosque is a mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
in the El Recreo district of Caracas, Venezuela
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. It is the second largest mosque in Latin America
Latin America or
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after the King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center in Buenos Aires
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. Mirroring modern Venezuela
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's religious tolerance and its oil realpolitik the construction of the mosque began in 1989 by Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim. The mosque designed by architect Zuhair Fayez occupies an area of 5000 m², its minaret is 113 metres high and the dome is 23 metres high. Construction of the mosque was completed in 1993. The mosque can hold around 3500 worshipers.
Rising higher between the Catholic Cathedral a few blocks away and the Caracas Synagogue, the minaret is the highest in the Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
.CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET ''"It is like a dream come true for us,"'' Hassan Majzoub, president of Venezuela's Islamic Center, said of the four-year project, culminated in March 1993 with the inauguration of the Caracas Islamic Center. Mr. Majzoub, a shopkeeper who emigrated from Lebanon in 1968, acknowledged that the 100,000 Muslims in Venezuela were easily surpassed in number by Muslims in Argentina, Brazil and the United States. This mosque is equipped with the following amenities. * A 1200 m² room for religious festivals, conferences and multiple uses from sports to social, has basketball, soccer and volleyball courts, also equipped with restrooms for men and women. * A classroom equipped for the teaching of the Arabic language and the Islamic religion. * A fully equipped funeral room to wash the dead and prepare them for burial. * Two apartments. * A fully equipped kitchen with an adjoining room. * Five administrative offices. * A room to receive visitors. * External and internal deposits and annexes. * Parking with capacity for 100 cars * There are an estimated 50,000 Muslims in Caracas, most of them of Syrian and Lebanese origin.
See also
*List of mosques in the Americas
This is a list of notable mosques and Islamic centres in the Americas, meaning individual buildings and congregations and administration, including notable current and former examples. This list is sorted alphabetically by country and building na ...
* Lists of mosques
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Caracas Getting Continent's Biggest Mosque
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim 1993 establishments in Venezuela Buildings and structures in Caracas Mosques in Venezuela Mosques completed in 1993