Masjid Muhammad, Washington, D.C.
Although the Masjid Muhammad began life as Nation of Islam Temple 4 in 1960—established with the help of Malcolm X—it was widely regarded as the first ‘mosque’ to be built in the U.S. Capital by descendants of enslaved African Americans.

The mosque has been a mainstream Sunni Islam mosque since 1975, when Warith Deen Mohammed, one of the sons of the Nation’s leader Elijah Muhammad, appointed a Sunni Imam and changed the name from “Temple 4” to Washington Masjid; removing the pews and reorienting the direction of prayer towards Makkah in Saudi Arabia. It has been known as the Masjid Muhammad since the 1980s.