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{{Short description|Nation of Islam (NOI) Mosque in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.}}
{{Distinguish|text=[[Maryam Mosque]], a mosque in Romania}}
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|image=Mosque Maryam.jpg
|caption = Mosque Maryam in February of 2009 
|building_name=Mosque Maryam
|location=7351 S. [[Stony Island Avenue]]
|municipality=[[Chicago]]
|state=[[Illinois]]
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|religious_affiliation=[[Nation of Islam]] (formerly Greek Orthodox)
|website={{URL|http://www.noi.org}}
|architecture=yes
|year_completed=
|construction_cost=
|leadership = Minister [[Louis Farrakhan]]
|dome_quantity=1
|minaret_quantity=0
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'''Mosque Maryam''', also known as Muhammad Mosque #2 or Temple #2, is the headquarters of the [[Nation of Islam]], located in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. It is at 7351 South [[Stony Island Avenue]] in the [[South Shore, Chicago|South Shore]] neighborhood.<ref name="Noi">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20050404110644/http://www.noi.org/national_center.htm Mosque Maryam and The Nation of Islam National Center]." ''[[Nation of Islam]]''. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.</ref> The building was originally the [[Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago#Illinois|Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church]]{{efn|At the time of its sale it was North America's largest Greek Orthodox church.<ref>{{Cite web |title=eCUIP : The Digital Library : Social Studies : Chicago: City of Neighborhoods |url=https://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/social/cityofneighborhoods/southlakefront/con_southlakefront-history_images-14(p23).html |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu}}</ref>}} before it relocated to suburban [[Palos Hills, Illinois|Palos Hills]]. [[Elijah Muhammad]], Farrakhan's predecessor as head for NOI, purchased the building in 1972. Muhammad was lent $3 million from [[Libya]]n leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]] to convert the former church.<ref>{{cite news| author =David Lepeska| title =Farrakhan Using Libyan Crisis to Bolster His Nation of Islam| newspaper =[[The New York Times]]| date =April 9, 2011| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/us/10cncfarrakhan.html| access-date = July 8, 2015}}</ref>

The main hall in the mosque is for meetings, since it was originally the church [[nave]] that contained [[pew]]s later replaced with seats.<ref name="Curtis2010">{{cite book|author=Edward E. Curtis|title=Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owZCMZpYamMC&pg=PA388|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3040-8|page=388}}</ref> Mosque Maryam has an internal open floor area for [[prayer rugs]] on which to kneel for [[Salah|prayer]]. They use that area every Friday for [[Friday prayer|Jumu`ah prayer]], which is led by the NOI's [[Imam]].

Adjacent to the mosque is the [[Muhammad University of Islam]], an educational institute for boys and girls from preschool through 12th grade.

== History ==
Farrakhan named the building Mosque Maryam in 1988.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gibson |first=Dawn-Marie |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nation_of_Islam_Louis_Farrakhan_and/4_xjDAAAQBAJ?hl=en |title=The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and the Men Who Follow Him |date= |publisher=[[Palgrave MacMillan]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-137-53084-4 |location=New York |pages=42 |language=en}}</ref> The Muhammad University of Islam was opened the same year.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Tinaz |first=Nuri |date=February 2001 |title=Conversion of African Americans to Islam: A Sociological Analysis of the Nation of Islam And Associated Groups |url=https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/36425/1/WRAP_THESIS_Tinaz_2001.pdf|degree=PhD |publisher=[[University of Warwick]] |access-date=2025-05-25}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Chicago|Illinois|Islam}}
* [[List of mosques in the United States]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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{{Religion in Chicago}}
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[[Category:Mosques in Illinois|Maryam]]
[[Category:Nation of Islam mosques]]
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures in Chicago]]
[[Category:Mosques converted from churches]]
[[Category:Former churches in Illinois]]
[[Category:20th-century mosques in the United States]]
[[Category:Islamic organizations established in 1972]]
[[Category:Headquarters in the United States]]
[[Category:Mosque buildings with domes in the United States]]
[[Category:1972 establishments in Illinois]]
[[Category:Islam in Chicago]]


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