Mosque No. 7
mosque located in Harlem, New York
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Overview
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Mosque No. 7, now known as Masjid Malcolm Shabazz, stands at 111 Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Today it hosts a Sunni Muslim congregation. It began as a mosque of the Nation of Islam and later took its present name from Malik el-Shabazz, the name adopted by Malcolm X, who had preached there.
History
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The mosque was first run as Mosque No. 7 of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X preached there until 1964, when he left the Nation of Islam and became a Sunni Muslim.
Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, and his son Wallace D. Muhammad then steered the organization toward Sunni Islam. In 1976 Wallace D. Muhammad renamed the mosque in honor of Malcolm X, known as Malik el-Shabazz.
From Wikipedia
The Masjid Malcolm Shabazz is a mosque which hosts a Sunni Islam congregation in Harlem, New York City. Formerly Mosque No. 7, it was originally a Nation of Islam mosque under Elijah Muhammad's leadership until after his death in 1975, when his son Wallace D. Muhammad reoriented the organization's philosophy towards Sunni Islam. In 1976, Wallace D. Muhammad renamed the mosque in honor of Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X), who had preached in Mosque No. 7 until 1964, before he left the Nation of Islam to become a Sunni Muslim.
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