King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center
Also known as: Centro Cultural Islámico Rey Fahd
Islamic cultural center in Argentina
Key facts
- Built
- 2000
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Overview
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The King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center is a mosque and cultural complex on Avenida Intendente Bullrich in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is regarded as the largest Islamic place of worship in Latin America. The design is the work of the Saudi architect Zuhair Faiz. Its prayer halls can accommodate 1,200 men and 400 women. Alongside the prayer spaces, the complex includes a primary and secondary school, a school of theology and a dormitory for 50 students. The center is named after Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz, who was King of Saudi Arabia at the time.
History
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The land for the center was granted by Carlos Menem, a former president of Argentina, after his official visit to Saudi Arabia. The complex was named after the Saudi monarch of the time, King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz.
The center was inaugurated on 25 September 2000. In size it surpassed the mosque in Caracas, Venezuela, which had previously been considered the largest in Latin America.
From Wikipedia
The King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center, officially the Islamic Cultural Center "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd in Argentina" (Spanish: Centro Cultural Islámico "Custodio de las Dos Sagradas Mezquitas, Rey Fahd"; abbreviated as CCIAR), is a Sunni Islam mosque and center for Islamic culture located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is named after King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Source: Wikipedia, article “King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center”; quoted unchanged under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Read more on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources
© OpenStreetMap katkıcıları (ODbL): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/55595034
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Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamisches_Kulturzentrum_K%C3%B6nig_Fahd_(Buenos_Aires)
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Fahd_Islamic_Cultural_Center
Wikipedia (es): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_cultural_isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd
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