The Al Rashid Mosque is the first mosque in Canada.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, EDMONTON – Al Rashid, a mosque in Edmonton, is Canada’s first mosque. The mosque was built on the initiative of the leader of the Muslim community in the Middle East, Hilwie Hamdon.
consecrated in 1938 and became Canada’s first mosque. It is funded by a community initiative of the Arab community, led by Hilwie Hamdon.
City of the page The Canadian EncyclopediaOn Tuesday (11/5), Al Rashid Mosque played an important role in the growth of the Muslim community in Alberta and across the country through many important initiatives.
Origins of the community
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several families from the Bekaa Valley in what was then Syria (now Lebanon) emigrated to Canada. In the 1930s, several dozen Lebanese Arab families successfully established themselves in Edmonton’s business and social circles.
This group became the nucleus from which the mosque community flourished, spawning many more mosques when Muslims migrated to Alberta.
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