Mahmud Mosque (Kababir)

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Ahmadiyya Mosque in Haifa
Ahmadiyya Mosque on Mount Carmel

The Mahmud Mosque ( Arabic مسجد محمود, DMG Masǧid Maḥmūd  'Mosque of the Honorable') in Haifa was built by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in the late 1970s.

The mosque

The first mosque in the settlement on the Carmel Mountains was built in 1931 and replaced by a larger mosque in the 1970s. The large mosque has two white minarets with a height of 34 meters and thus dominates the cityscape in the middle of the low buildings on the hills around.

The Ahmadiyya in Israel

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Israel settled in Kababir, coming from Ni'lin near Jerusalem . Abdul Qadir Odeh was the first Palestinian to convert to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Israel . The first Ahmadiyya missionary in Israel was Jalaluddin Shams from India.

The settlement on the Carmel Mountains

Kababir is a mixed settlement with Jews and Arab Ahmadis on the Carmel Mountains in Haifa, which was founded in 1928.

Web links

Commons : Kababir Mosque  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 32 ° 48 ′ 17.8 "  N , 34 ° 58 ′ 11.7"  E