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1. Minaret height. 160 feet (49 m) [ 1] Website. www .theislamiccenter .com. The Islamic Center of Washington is a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Washington, D.C. It is located on Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue just east of the bridge over Rock Creek. When it opened in 1957, it was the largest mosque in the Western Hemisphere.
Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت lit. ' Society of Preachers ', [5] [6] also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") [2] [3] [4] is an international Islamic religious movement [2] [3] focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant [1] and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [7] and ...
The Maghrib prayer ( Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers). If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one. According to Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after sunset, following Asr prayer, and ends at the beginning of night, the start of ...
Dar Al-Hijrah was founded in 1983 by a group of university students, mostly of Arab origin, who had broken away from the Islamic Center of Washington. [4] [5] [6] It was one of the first mosques to be established in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. [7] It is also one of the area's largest and most influential mosques. [4]
River system. Potomac River. Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek, originally named Goose Creek, is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815, when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Presently, it flows under the city in tunnels, including under Constitution Avenue NW.
The history of Washington, D.C., is tied to its role as the capital of the United States. The site of the District of Columbia along the Potomac River was first selected by President George Washington. The city came under attack during the War of 1812 in an episode known as the Burning of Washington. Upon the government's return to the capital ...
The Maghreb ( / ˈmɑːɡrəb /; [ 4] Arabic: ْاَلْمَغْرِب, romanized : al-Maghrib, lit. 'the west'), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, [ 5] is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a geographical area of 68.3 square miles (176.9 km 2 ), 61.4 square miles (159.0 km 2) of which is land, and the remaining 6.9 square miles (17.9 km 2) (10.16%) of which is water. The Anacostia River and the smaller Rock Creek flow into the Potomac River in Washington.