New York Transit Museum1d ago
#EidMubarak and #HappyEid to all who celebrate from the #NYTransitMuseum! #DidYouKnow that the first mosque in #NYC and one of the oldest mosques in the United States is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn? The building is located at 104 Powers Street between Manhattan Avenue and Leonard Street.
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It was built as a Methodist church in the 1880s, but membership steadily declined over the next few decades. In 1931, a group of Lipka Tatars, an Eastern European ethnic group practicing Islam, bought the church and converted it into a mosque.
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