Al-Farooq Masjid

I wanted to write this review in response to a previous review that the Masjid was closed during off hours. I am a traveler and I came here a couple hours after there already prayed Dhur, the Masjid was open

A gem to Atlanta.

I took my Shahada at this Masjid so it is very dear to my heart. The community and Masjid are beautiful. SubhanaAllah. Great Ramadan Programs. Very clean bathrooms and separate Wudu room.

MashAllah, it's the most beautiful masjid I have seen in the USA. They imams are great people mashAllah, the regular attendees are nice also.

One of the best masjid I have ever visited.

All Doors are lock 12.30 pm.Noon.Out side one brother told me open at prayer time.Big Masjid .Not good for my self who is travelling

I have visited this mosque a few times and had two types of experiences...very positive and very negative. My negative experience was during a Jumah service. No one said hello, the service was confusing and I really have an issue with being completely segregated. The positive was when I visited with an interfaith group. We were brought into the main hall (men and women) and the board member who spoke was very open about his faith. The people were much more friendly then. Beautiful mosque. Average friendliness.

The building is beautiful and spacious. The parking is inadequate, especially for the Friday I attended during Ramadan. :) The attendees were very multicultural, which was encouraging. The service however was in Arabic. I am an American female convert. I couldn't understand much at all, just the occasional word. Also, no men gave me salaams. I can count on 1 hand the women who did. Few of the women in the women's area smiled. One woman converted and hardly anyone said anything to her. I was shocked! Anyway, being a woman, I can only really report on the women's area of this mosque. It was spacious, but we had to watch on 2 TVs hanging up fairly high. Not so good for those with neck problems! For women with children, the playroom has no TV, no speaker system, no way of hearing or knowing what is being said. Later, when talking with someone on the board of this mosque, he did openly say that they go with the most conservative views so as to offend no one. For me, that says it all.

I went to Jumuah at this masjid when I was visiting Atlanta. The architecture is amazing, I was gawking inside like a country bumpkin. I was disappointed at the khutbah service; I'm accustomed to the adhan followed by a khutbah mixed Arabic & English. Apparently this is one of the masajid that thinks the khutbah is in Arabic only so the English at the beginning wasn't considered "khutbah". At any rate it did fulfill my Friday obligation.

I grew up at this masjid and I live down the street. The 14th street bridge over 85/75 is closed right now and should be open this year.

Al-Farooq Masjid opened the new masjid about three months ago. The structure is awesome. The outside is copper covered dome, which has become an Atlanta islamic architectural wonder. The interior is the finest in the Atlanta area, comparable, if not acceding any other masjid in the US. The front courtyard has two fountains. The entrance is large, with the foyer that leads to the prayer hall and on the left, wadu area. From the foyer staircase goes to the sisters area, but this is not used. Sisters entrance is farther from the courtyard. This is the cleanest I've seen of any masjid. The prayer hall is in an octagonal shape and two storey with gothic pillars. Upstairs the sisters have two areas. Though both overlook the downstairs brothers section, one of the area is for sisters with little children who may become disruptive.

I have attended this Masjid several times and found a vibrant communty full of spirit. I loved the Athmosphere, the Imam and the work they are doing.

this is the main masjid in atlanta. overall good masjid. have a nice full time school. waiting to see how it looks after construction.

This community is in the process of building a new mosque. It looks as if they have finished the parking structure so far. Men and women pray in the same room with a divider (wrought iron folding screens with cloth panels). From the women's side you can only see through to the other side if you are very close to a gap in the dividers. Women's space is about a fourth of the room and looks to be as clean as the men's space. The masjid library (several bookshelves) is on the men's side - inaccessible to women. The men's wudu area includes seating, spigots, etc. The women must make do with a handicapped bathroom. Because there is only one of these there was a line to make wudu before the prayer and I missed the beginning of the jamah. The bathroom was not the cleanest - one sister warned me not to wear my socks in there. Insha'Allah in the new masjid women will get their fair share in terms of toilet/wudu facilities and books. People at the masjid were friendly although it is obviously one of those masjids where men do not usually give salaams to women - I did manage however, to get a brother to look for my husband when it was time to go. At some other conservative masajid I would have had to search out a child to do this for me. That said this masjid has excellent halaqas. Apparently, every Sunday, they hold simultaneous male and female halaqas. The female halaqa is in the community room adjacent to the prayer space, the men's is held in the prayer space (some women sit in on this from behind the women's partition). The women's halaqa I attended was excellent - the tafsir we considered really helped to bring out the deep meaning of the Qur'anic surahs we studied. The sisters seemed earnest and eager to deepen their faith. The halaqa seems to be broken into two parts - the first part Qur'an/tafsir focused and the second more shariah/aqidah based. My husband reported that the brother's halaqa was also excellent and touched on important themes. I would attend this masjid, for the halaqa (particularly the tafsir portion) alone, if we lived in Atlanta.