Mahmood Mosque, Haifa

For similarly named mosques, see Mahmood Mosque (disambiguation).

The Mahmood^[a] Mosque (Arabic: جامع سيدنا محمود; Hebrew: ג'אמע סיידנא מחמוד) is a mosque on Mount Carmel in Kababir, in the Haifa district of Israel. It was built by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the late 1970s.

Mahmood Mosque
جامع سيدنا محمود
The mosque in 2008
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Branch/tradition	Ahmadiyya
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Mosque
Status	Active
Location
Location	Mount Carmel, Kababir, Haifa
Country	Israel
Location of the mosque in North Israel
Geographic coordinates	32°48′18″N 34°58′12″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque architecture
Completed	1931 1970s
Specifications
Dome(s)	One
Minaret(s)	Two
Minaret height	34 m (112 ft)
Elevation	178 m (584 ft)[1]

History

The first mosque on Mount Carmel was built in 1931. The Mahmood Mosque was built in the 1970s and was named after the second Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad.

The mosque has two white minarets that are 35 metres (115 ft) high and dominate the skyline of the residential neighbourhoods on the ridges nearby. Construction of the mosque was funded by members of the local Ahmadiyya community, which moved to Kababir from Ni'lin, a village near Jerusalem.

Kababir is a mixed neighbourhood of Muslim Arabs and Jews on Mount Carmel.^[2] As of c. 2015, it was estimated that approximately 2,200 Ahmadis live in Kababir, of which 70 percent were members of the Oudeh family.^[3]

Gallery

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  Ahmadi Mosque
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  View of mosque from afar
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  View of the minarets

See also

• Israel portal
• Islam portal

• Ahmadiyya in Israel
• List of mosques in Israel
• List of Ahmadiyya buildings and structures
• Islam in Israel

Notes

1. Also spelled as Mehmood.