Lists of mosques in South America

This is a list of lists of mosques in South America, including mosques, Islamic centers, individual buildings and congregations and administrative organizations, sorted by country in South America. ^[a]

Argentina

Main article: List of mosques in Argentina

Brazil

Main article: List of mosques in Brazil

Chile

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
Mezquita As-Salam		Santiago	1989	[1]
Mohammed VI Mosque		Coquimbo	2007	[2]
Mezquita Bilal		Iquique	1997	[3]

Colombia

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
Othman Ben Affan Mosque		Barranquilla	2005	[4]
Abou Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque		Bogotá	2012	[5]
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab		Maicao	1997	[6]

Peru

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
Bab al-Islam Mosque		Tacna	2000	[7]
Mosque of Lima		Lima	1986

Suriname

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
Mosque Keizerstraat		Paramaribo	1984	[8]
		Wanica District	1906	First known mosque established in South America. [9]

Venezuela

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
		Caracas	1968	First purpose-built mosque in Venezuela. [10]
Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim		Caracas	1993	Second largest mosque in South America at 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft). Possesses the tallest minaret in the Americas at 113 m (371 ft) tall. [11]

See also

• Islam portal
• South America portal

• Islam in American Continent
• Lists of mosques (worldwide)
• Lists of mosques in North America
• List of the oldest mosques in the world

Notes

1. Mosques located in Central America can be found in the Lists of mosques in North America.

References

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3. "Muslims in Chile". Islamweb. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
4. Yidi, Odette (19 April 2023). "Musulmanes en Barranquilla, una historia de tolerancia". Bahath. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
5. Dar, Eissa (22 September 2019). "Musulmanes: Islam's Home In Bogotá, Colombia". Bahath. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
6. "La Mezquita Omar Ibn Al Khattab, 10 años ligada a la historia de Maicao" [The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, 10 years linked to the history of Maicao]. El Informador (in Spanish). 17 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
7. Islamic Bulletin, Trip to Peru, Issue 14
8. "SURINAME: Jüdische Gemeinde in Paramaribo mit neuem Leben". David.juden.at. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
9. Arabian American Oil Company; Saudi Aramco; Aramco Services (1987). Aramco world. Aramco. p. 67. Retrieved 5 July 2012. – Then, in 1902, Indonesian Muslims from Java arrived to cultivate Suriname's coastal rice fields, and four years later, the country's first mosque was built at Wanica.
10. Westerlund, David; Svanberg, Ingvar (1999). Islam Outside the Arab World. ISBN   9780312226916 . Retrieved 15 March 2015.
11. CARACAS MUSLIMS INAUGURATE MOSQUE WITH HEMISPHERE'S HIGHEST MINARET