Lists of mosques in South America
List of mosques in South America

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

Bolivia

Name Images Location Year Remarks
As-Salam Mosque La Paz [1]
Bolivian Islamic Center Calle San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, [2][3]
Yebel An Nur Mosque [4]

Brazil

Chile

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mezquita As-Salam Santiago 1989 [5]
Mohammed VI Mosque Coquimbo 2007 [6]
Bilal Mosque [es] Iquique 1997 [7][8]
Mezquita La Huayca La Huayca [9][10]

Colombia

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Maicao 1997 [11]
Othman Ben Affan Mosque Barranquilla 2005 [12]
Abou Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque Bogotá 2012 [13]
Mezquita de As-Salam Medellin [14]
Mezquita de Muhammad [15]
Mezquita Bilal Al Habashi [16]
Islamic Center Al-Qurtubi [17]
Ahlul Bayt Mosque [18]

Paraguay

Peru

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Bab al-Islam Mosque Tacna 2000 [19]
Mosque of Lima Lima 1986

Suriname

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Mosque Keizerstraat Paramaribo 1984 [20]
Wanica District 1906 First known mosque established in South America.[21]
Nabawi Suriname Mosque Paramaribo 1933 [22]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Nasir Mosque Paramaribo 1971 [23]

Uruguay

Name Image Location Year Remarks
Egyptian Center of Islamic Culture Montevideo
Islamic Center Uruguay [24]
Musallah Al Haazimi

Venezuela

Name Images Location Year Remarks
Caracas 1968 First purpose-built mosque in Venezuela.[25]
Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim Caracas 1993 Second largest mosque in South America at 5,000 m2 (54,000 ft2). Possesses the tallest minaret in the Americas at 113 m (371 ft) tall.[26]
Punto Fijo Mosque Punto Fijo, Falcón 2008
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
Mezquita en el Tigre Anzoátegui

See also

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ "As-Salam Mosque, La Paz – Mosqpedia". Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Bolivia -- Key Muslim Converts Assert Local Peril, Ally With Zealots Abroad" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Bolivian Islamic Center – Connect2Dialogue". Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  4. ^ lfcb.E492330d (20 April 2014). ""Hay aymaras y quechuas que se convierten al Islam"". Erbol Digital Archivo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 October 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Modern Muslim Societies. Marshall Cavendish. 1 September 2010. pp. 374–. ISBN 978-0-7614-7927-7.
  6. ^ "En marzo del 2020 reabriría sus puertas la Mezquita de Coquimbo". www.diarioeldia.cl/. 2 October 2019. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Muslims in Chile". Islamweb. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  8. ^ "The Muslim Community in Chile: Origins and Dreams". www.missionislam.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  9. ^ "La Tirana". Viaje x Chile (in Spanish). 3 June 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Yidi, Odette (19 April 2023). "Musulmanes en Barranquilla, una historia de tolerancia". Bahath. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  13. ^ Dar, Eissa (22 September 2019). "Musulmanes: Islam's Home In Bogotá, Colombia". Bahath. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  14. ^ "¿La conoce?, en un barrio de Medellín hay una mezquita - Telemedellín". Telemedellín (in European Spanish). 7 February 2024. Archived from the original on 3 November 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  15. ^ "Mosque in Cartagena, Colombia - Mezquita de Muhammad | LaunchGood | LaunchGood". www.launchgood.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  16. ^ "The Big Discovery: Finding a Mosque in the Middle of Nowhere" (in Spanish). 13 December 2015. Archived from the original on 20 April 2025. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  17. ^ "Al-Qurtubi Mosque – Mosqpedia". Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  18. ^ "Ahlul Bayt Mosque – Mosqpedia". Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  19. ^ Islamic Bulletin, Trip to Peru, Issue 14
  20. ^ "SURINAME: Jüdische Gemeinde in Paramaribo mit neuem Leben". David.juden.at. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ "Nabawi Suriname Mosque – Mosqpedia". Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  23. ^ "Ahmadiyya Muslim Nasir Mosque – Mosqpedia". Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  24. ^ Lamport, Mark A. (1 June 2018). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South: 2 Volumes. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 832. ISBN 979-8-216-30893-5.
  25. ^ Westerlund, David; Svanberg, Ingvar (1999). Islam Outside the Arab World. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312226916. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  26. ^ "CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET". AP News.
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