Kababir (; ) is a mixed neighbourhood with a majority of Ahmadi

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and a significant minority of

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History

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 ...

was founded in the 19th century, originating in

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and settled in Kababir. Most of the families who were displaced to Kababir are originally from the village of

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near

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. One of the biggest and most well known family is the Odeh's family. They built the neighbourhood's first

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in 1931, and a larger grand mosque in the 1980s. Also, the Shambor family is one of the biggest in neighborhood. The Mosque is named after the second Ahmadi Khalifa

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (; 12 January 1889 – 8 November 1965) was the Ahmadiyya Caliphate, second caliph (, ''khalīfatul masīh al-thāni''), leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam A ...

. The grand mosque has two white

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s standing 34 metres tall, which dominate the low-rise skyline of the residential neighbourhoods on the ridges nearby. In the beginning, the neighbourhood was managed as a commune, in which every working male contributed a fee to a mutual account. Some of the men joined the Turkish army, while some worked in the

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in the city of

. Others worked building the

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Neighborhoods of Haifa Ahmadiyya places {{Israel-geo-stub

History

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