Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta - 14th Street - Atlanta, GA
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N 33° 47.111 W 084° 24.108
16S E 740572 N 3741372
Established in 1980 as The Atlanta Mosque, changed its name to Al-Farooq Masjid on Atlanta due to a name conflict with another organization. Located on 14th Street in Atlanta, GA.
Waymark Code: WMEBJ3
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2012
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From the Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta web site. (
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"The Masjid was established in 1980 as The Atlanta Mosque, a nonprofit, non-political, religious organization. Later due to a name conflict with another organization, its name was changed to Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta."
"In 1990 the Masjid decided to expand the scope of its service activities by establishing an academic religious-parochial school (Dar-un-Noor School). This school now has 200 students in grades pre-K through 8 learning all academic subjects such as math, science, social studies, in addition to Islamic Studies and Arabic."
"The growing population of Muslims prompted the Masjid to address the need for a formal Quranic teaching/hifz (memorizing/learning the Holy Quran) facility. This necessitated the establishment of The Atlanta Dar-ul-Uloom (in 1994) with a hostel facility for full-time resident students. This institution now has 27 students, two qualified full-time instructors, and a dorm warden."