Jami Mosque (مسجد جامع) is a mosque in

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, Canada. Located just east of

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, it is the oldest Canadian Islamic centre in the city and dubbed "the mother of all the mosques in Toronto".Jami Mosque
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, "Jami Mosque", 2009 the building was purchased in 1969 by Toronto's small, predominantly

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and Albanians Muslim community and converted into the city's first Islamic worship centre. While Jami originally held a large number of

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followers, the numbers declined after a large influx of

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immigration led to the leasing of a hall in eastern Toronto; and the eventual 1981 purchase of a building converted to

Madina Mosque Medina Mosque or Madina Mosque may refer to: * Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia * Madina Mosque (Accra), Ghana * Madina Mosque (Barbados) * Madina Mosque (Bengal), in the Nizamat Fort Campus in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India * Madin ...

, which became the spiritual hub of Tablighi Jamaat. Jami then drifted towards finding leadership in the

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.Masud, Muhammad Khalid. "Travellers in faith: studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat", p. 227

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