Baitul Hameed Mosque, Mosque with Moorish designs in Chino, California.
Baitul Hameed Mosque is a Spanish-inspired Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque at 11941 Ramona Avenue in Chino, California, just inside San Bernardino County. It covers 19,000 square feet on nearly 5 acres, with the San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop. The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, offices, a library, two exhibition halls, classrooms, a commercial kitchen, a regulation basketball court, and a missionary residence and guest house.
The building was constructed during a period of expansion for Islamic prayer centers across California. It demonstrates how traditional Moorish architectural styles are applied in contemporary American religious structures.
The mosque is named Baitul Hameed, "House of the Praiseworthy." It is open daily to the public and offers guided tours, and several times a year it holds food drives, blood collection drives and peace symposia that draw both Muslims and the wider community.
The mosque is open daily to the public and guided tours are available. Disabled access is provided, and the grounds hold prayer halls for men and women, two exhibition halls, classrooms, a library, a commercial kitchen and a guest house. A regulation high-school basketball court stands on site, with an NCAA-sized court planned for the back lot.
The mosque was one of five built under the "5 Mosque Initiative", in which Mirza Tahir Ahmad directed the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the United States to establish five mosques across the country. He laid the foundation stone in October 1987 and inaugurated the building in July 1989.
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