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This is a list of lists of mosques in South America, including mosques, Islamic centers, individual buildings and congregations and administrative organizations, sorted by country in South America.[a]

Argentina

Main article: List of mosques in Argentina

Brazil

Main article: List of mosques in Brazil

Chile

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mezquita As-Salam Santiago 1989 [1]
Mohammed VI Mosque Coquimbo 2007 [2]

Colombia

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Othman Ben Affan Mosque Barranquilla 2005 [3]
Abou Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque Bogotá 2012 [4]
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Maicao 1997 [5]

Peru

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Bab al-Islam Mosque Tacna 2000 [6]
Mosque of Lima Lima 1986

Suriname

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mosque Keizerstraat Paramaribo 1984 [7]
Wanica District 1906 First known mosque established in South America.[8]

Venezuela

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Caracas 1968 First purpose-built mosque in Venezuela.[9]
Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim Caracas 1993 Second largest mosque in South America at 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft). Possesses the tallest minaret in the Americas at 113 m (371 ft) tall.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Mosques located in Central America can be found in the Lists of mosques in North America.

References

  1. ^ Modern Muslim Societies. Marshall Cavendish. 1 September 2010. pp. 374–. ISBN 978-0-7614-7927-7.
  2. ^ "En marzo del 2020 reabriría sus puertas la Mezquita de Coquimbo". www.diarioeldia.cl/. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Yidi, Odette (19 April 2023). "Musulmanes en Barranquilla, una historia de tolerancia". Bahath. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  4. ^ Dar, Eissa (22 September 2019). "Musulmanes: Islam's Home In Bogotá, Colombia". Bahath. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. ^ "La Mezquita Omar Ibn Al Khattab, 10 años ligada a la historia de Maicao" [The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, 10 years linked to the history of Maicao]. El Informador (in Spanish). 17 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  6. ^ Islamic Bulletin, Trip to Peru, Issue 14
  7. ^ "SURINAME: Jüdische Gemeinde in Paramaribo mit neuem Leben". David.juden.at. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  8. ^ Arabian American Oil Company; Saudi Aramco; Aramco Services (1987). Aramco world. Aramco. p. 67. Retrieved 5 July 2012. – Then, in 1902, Indonesian Muslims from Java arrived to cultivate Suriname's coastal rice fields, and four years later, the country's first mosque was built at Wanica.
  9. ^ Westerlund, David; Svanberg, Ingvar (1999). Islam Outside the Arab World. ISBN 9780312226916. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  10. ^ [1] CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET
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