Musjid Malcom Shabazz
Musjid Malcom Shabazz
- Musjid Malcolm Shabazz, formerly known as Mosque No. 7, is a Sunni Muslim Musjid in Harlem, New York City. It was formerly a Nation of Islam mosque where Malcolm X preached until he left it for Sunni Islam in 1964.
- It opened as Temple No. 7 of the Nation of Islam (NOI) at the Harlem YMCA in 1946. All Nation of Islam sites were initially called Temples; the NOI later switched to calling them mosques to add elements from mainstream Islam and gain legitimacy. It moved to Lenox Casino at 102 West 116th Street on the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue. In 1954, it “was just a storefront when Malcolm was named minister by Elijah Muhammad.” When Malcolm X split from Elijah Muhammad in 1964, he started a Sunni Muslim Musjid named The Muslim Mosque Inc. The successor to that Musjid is The Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. at 130 West 113th Street, in Harlem.
- In January 1964, Elijah Muhammad stripped Malcolm of his offices and promoted James 3X as the new minister of Mosque No. 7.
- Temple No. 7 was destroyed in a bombing in 1965, after Malcolm X’s assassination, forcing the Nation of Islam to move the mosque to 106 West 127th Street. The building was redesigned by Sabbath Brown, and in 1976, it was renamed Malcolm Shabazz Mosque, or Musjid Malcolm Shabazz, by Wallace D. Muhammad, the new leader of the Nation of Islam, to honor the memory and contributions of Malcolm X.
