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Baitur Rehman Mosque (''House of the Gracious'') is located in
Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially Unincorporated area, unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 ...
in the United States. The mosque was inaugurated by
Mirza Tahir Ahmad Mirza Tahir Ahmad (; 18 December 1928 – 19 April 2003) was the fourth caliph (, ''khalīfatul masīh al-rābi'') and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the fourth successor of the founder of the commun ...
, the late head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on October 14, 1994. The mosque is run by the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed a ...
. An estimated 5,000 Ahmadis and guests from across the United States attended the opening ceremony.http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-914374.html


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Islam in Maryland There are around 70,000 Muslims in Maryland in the United States as of December 1992, according to the American Muslim Council. This is the tenth highest number of Muslims of all U.S. states, representing 1.4% of the Muslim population in the c ...
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List of mosques in the United States This is a listing of notable mosques in the United States (Arabic: ''Masjid'', Spanish language, Spanish: ''Mezquita''), including Islamic places of worship that do not qualify as traditional mosques, sorted in alphabetical order by States of the ...
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Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed a ...
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Ahmadiyya in the United States Ahmadiyya is an Islamic branch in the United States. The earliest contact between the American people and the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam was during the lifetime of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. In 1911, during the era of the First Caliphate of the Communi ...
* List of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community buildings and structures


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Photo of Mosque on Panoramio
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