{{Short description|Mosque in Chicago, Illinois, United States}} {{For|Mosque situated in Bahawalpur|Al-Sadiq Mosque, Bahawalpur}} {{Infobox religious building | building_name = Al-Sadiq Mosque | image = Al-Sadiq mosque.jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | location = 4448 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60653 | map_type = Illinois | map_size = 75px | map_caption = Location in Illinois | coordinates = {{coord|41.8132|-87.6249|display=inline,title}} | religious_affiliation = Ahmadiya | tradition = Ahmadiyya | status = non-profit religious organization | website = [http://www.ahmadiyya.us Official Website] | architecture_type = Place of worship | year_completed = 1922 | dome_quantity = 1 | minaret_quantity = 4 }} The '''Al Sadiq Mosque''' (or '''Wabash Mosque''') was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.muslimsunrise.com/dmddocuments/1922_issue_3.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-06-04 |archive-date=2012-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216024715/http://www.muslimsunrise.com/dmddocuments/1922_issue_3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Al-Sadiq Mosque is one of America's earliest built mosques and the oldest standing mosque in the country today.<ref>http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.com/2010/02/chicago-usa-black-history-month-event.html {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=December 2022}} This mosque was funded with the money predominantly donated by African-American Ahmadi Muslim converts.
==Chicago Muslim Mission== [[File:Dr. Maulana Mufti Muhammad Sadiq.jpg|thumb|left|Muhammad Sadiq – First Muslim missionary in the United States]] Mufti Muhammad Sadiq arrived in America on February 15, 1920, and established in 1921 the Headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Muhammad Sadiq started a monthly magazine called ''The Muslim Sunrise'', which contained articles on Islam, contemporary issues of conscience, and the names of new converts. This magazine still exists.<ref>[http://www.muslimsunrise.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30 “The Moslem Sunrise”]</ref> Muhammad Sadiq attracted thousands of converts in his short stay in America, most notably in Detroit and Chicago between 1922 and 1923.<ref name=nytimes>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DB143DF931A15756C0A965958260 Islamic Movement Came to U.S. in 1920], New York Times on May 23, 1993</ref>
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community continued to grow and established more than 40 missions throughout America.<ref name=nytimes /> Four Ahmadi mosques can be found in the region today, with demographics that are a mixture of African-American, Indo-Pakistani, White, and Latino. Chicago served as the movement's national headquarters until 1950,<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/865.html Encyclopedia of Chicago: Muslims]</ref> when it was moved to the American Fazl Mosque in Washington, D.C. In 1994 the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's USA headquarters were moved to Masjid Bait ur Rahman in Silver Spring, MD.
==See also== * List of mosques in the Americas * Lists of mosques * List of mosques in the United States
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * ''Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around the World – A Pictorial Presentation'' (Khilafat Centenary Edition) by the USA Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, {{ISBN|1-882494-51-2}}, pg. 291 * ''Al-Nahl Special Issue on Dr. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq''
==External links== * [http://www.ahmadiyya.us/index.php?view=article&catid=41&id=42&option=com_content Mosque Info]
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