Mahmood Mosque, Haifa


The Mahmood Mosque 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.

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

Architecture

The mosque has two white minarets that are 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.