Religious Places

The biggest mosque in the Caribbean:Mosque Keizerstraat

This is the biggest mosque in the Caribbean. The current building was completed in 1984.The Mosque Keizerstraat is the headquarters of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam in Paramaribo in Suriname, “Surinaamse Islamitische Vereniging” (SIV).The Muslim community of Paramaribo was established in 1929. Its first mosque, a wooden rectangular building with minarets, was completed in 1932. In 1979 boxing legend Muhammad Ali visited the mosque.

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