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Lists of mosques in South America

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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

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Main article: List of mosques in Argentina

Brazil

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Main article: List of mosques in Brazil

Chile

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Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mezquita As-Salam Santiago 1989 [1]
Mohammed VI Mosque Coquimbo 2007 [2]
Mezquita Bilal Iquique 1997 [3]
Mezquita La Huayca La Huayca [4][5]

Colombia

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Name Images Location Year Remarks
Othman Ben Affan Mosque Barranquilla 2005 [6]
Abou Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque Bogotá 2012 [7]
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Maicao 1997 [8]

Peru

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Name Images Location Year Remarks
Bab al-Islam Mosque Tacna 2000 [9]
Mosque of Lima Lima 1986

Suriname

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Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mosque Keizerstraat Paramaribo 1984 [10]
Wanica District 1906 First known mosque established in South America.[11]

Venezuela

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Name Images Location Year Remarks
Caracas 1968 First purpose-built mosque in Venezuela.[12]
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.[13]
Punto Fijo Mosque Punto Fijo

Falcón

Al-Rauda Mosque Maracaibo,

Zulia

Islamic Association of the Palestine Mosque El Limón, Aragua
Honorable Association of the Jerusalem Mosque Margarita,

Nueva Esparta

Honorable Association of the Omar ben al-Khattab Mosque San Felipe

See also

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Notes

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

References

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  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. ^ "Muslims in Chile". Islamweb. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  4. ^ "La Tirana". Viaje x Chile (in Spanish). 3 June 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  5. ^ Ayres, Stefano Crisóstomo (2018). Espacios, dinámicas e integración: el caso de la comunidad musulmana en Iquique (1999‑2018) (PDF) (Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Historia). Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Ciencias Históricas. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  6. ^ Yidi, Odette (19 April 2023). "Musulmanes en Barranquilla, una historia de tolerancia". Bahath. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  7. ^ Dar, Eissa (22 September 2019). "Musulmanes: Islam's Home In Bogotá, Colombia". Bahath. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Islamic Bulletin, Trip to Peru, Issue 14
  10. ^ "SURINAME: Jüdische Gemeinde in Paramaribo mit neuem Leben". David.juden.at. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Westerlund, David; Svanberg, Ingvar (1999). Islam Outside the Arab World. ISBN 9780312226916. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  13. ^ [1] CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET
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