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Dublin mosque is a mosque in the Irish city of Dublin. In the building of the mosque and the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation of Ireland.

The history of the Irish Muslim community began in 1959, when the Muslim students decided to organize and to establish the Dublin Islamic society (later renamed the Islamic Foundation of Ireland) in order to be able to be centralized to solve different questions of a religious nature, and problems related to education and social needs of the residents of the territory of Ireland's Muslims. The company was registered as a charitable organization, and since its Foundation is the official representative of Muslims in Ireland.

Islamic Foundation of Ireland is also actively contributed to the Foundation of mosques, both in Dublin and in other cities across Ireland. In 1976 in Dublin was opened the first mosque and Islamic centre Ireland. Over time, considerably raised the flow of young people professing Islam and wants to get an education in a prestigious Dublin educational institutions (including in the famous Dublin College of surgeons), and eventually to settle on the emerald Isle, has led to the fact that the Muslim community of Dublin considerably increased. Soon the old mosque was simply not able to accommodate all the believers, and there was a question on purchase of the new building. Thus, in 1983 the Islamic Foundation of Ireland bought was built in the second half of the 19th century building, previously occupied by the Presbyterian Church, and converted it into a mosque, which, actually, is the Dublin mosque.

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