The Brooklyn Muslim Mosque
The Brooklyn Muslim Mosque
- Also known as the Powers Street Mosque, the oldest surviving Musjid in New York sits on a quiet
road in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is a two-story, late 19th-century former church, now covered in
white, wooden slats, topped by an ornate turret and crescent.
- The design hints at the origins of the Musjid’s founders—ethnic Tatars from the Baltic states of
Lithuania, Poland and Belarus, where all the Musjids once looked like this. The community bought
this building in 1927 and it remains in their custody to this day, though daily prayers are no longer
held here.
