The Brooklyn Moslem Mosque, New York City
Also known as the Powers Street Mosque, the oldest surviving mosque in New York sits on a quiet road in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is a two-story, late 19th-century former church, now covered in white, wooden slats, topped by an ornate turret and crescent.

The design hints at the origins of the mosque’s founders—ethnic Tatars from the Baltic states of Lithuania, Poland and Belarus, where all the mosques once looked like this. The community bought this building in 1927 and it remains in their custody to this day, though daily prayers are no longer held here.