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Posted on 11/10/2025 10:07:20 AM PST by DFG
The grand opening ceremony of a sprawling 150,000-square-foot “milestone for the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community and a transformative addition to the city’s cultural landscape” has opened in Houston. “The Ismaili Center opens in Houston — a first for the U.S.,” by Shafaq Patel, Axios, November 6, 2025:
The stone tapestry, with its triangular patterns, illuminates at night and has shadows in the day.
The Ismaili Center, Houston, an architecturally grand cultural and religious space and one of only seven worldwide, has completed construction and is opening to the public next month.
Why it matters: The 150,000-square-foot center — the first in the U.S. — blends Islamic and contemporary design. It spans 11 acres and sits along Buffalo Bayou.
While its prayer hall will serve Ismaili Muslims daily, the center and its gardens are designed as a community gathering space open to all Houstonians.
Context: Ismailis, a branch of Shia Islam, are guided by a hereditary imam — currently His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan V, who succeeded his father in February.
Believed to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, the imam leads a community of millions across more than 70 countries.
Houston has the largest population of Ismailis in the U.S. Tens of thousands of Ismailis live in the greater Houston area and attend the region’s several Jamatkhanas, or prayer halls.
Driving the news: At a Thursday dedication ceremony, the Aga Khan and Mayor John Whitmire officially opened the center.
The imam will visit the Ismaili community in events through Sunday in Houston — his first visit to the U.S. in a religious capacity — marking a deeply spiritual moment for the community.
Flashback: The land was purchased in 2006 by the Aga Khan Foundation, and construction began in 2021….
One would think such a “milestone” would be in a Muslim country, not Texas. There’s a reason why it is regarded as such.
Where does the Ismaili Center stand with regard to Sharia law and texts in the Qur’an that are diametrically opposed to Western law? These are important questions for the sake of national security.
The Ismailis today renounce violence. Nevertheless, they have a significant history of conquest by the sword; most significantly, the Fatimid Caliphate that resulted in the conquest of Egypt. The Fatimids founded Cairo as their new capital and persecuted Christians and Jews. Their dynasty included North Africa, Egypt and Syria. This major imperial power was in rivalry with the Abbasids.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, many other churches, synagogues, Torah scrolls, religious artifacts and buildings in and around Jerusalem, were destroyed under Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, aka “the mad Caliph” and also “Nero of Egypt.”
History is forgotten by most today, under the spell of Islamic taqiyya.
According to Christianity Today:
Some Christians have raised concerns. Houston’s conservative talk radio channel KTRH has broadcast the increased wariness many have toward Muslims. And its reporter B. D. Hobbs recently featured former president of Southern Evangelical Seminary Alex McFarland, who warned about the “growth of Islam in the West” and an alleged Muslim goal of replacing the US Constitution with sharia law.
Christianity Today further noted:
Earlier this year in North Texas, the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), one of the largest mosques in the region, proposed a residential development of thousands of homes centered around a mosque and Islamic school.
See more about EPIC City HERE.
In Florida, Islamic leaders are now fighting attorney general James Uthmeier’s claim that taxpayer vouchers pose national security threat. It does. Read more HERE.
Sharia law is divine in Islam and adherent Islamic institutes hail the Sharia above American and all other laws. Islam is expansionary today as it has been for 1400 years.
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Most of the people who complain about mega-churches won’t complain about this mega-mosque.
Sad that Texas was worried about
Californication.
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Aloha Snackbar
One Islamic center...one Ranger.
We have one in downtown Atlanta. It takes up a city block. 😣
thank the open border globalist neoCON scum that forced diversity on everyone as the national religion.
We need to stop recognizing them as a religion, which they aren’t.
Where did the funds come from?
I asked Google Gemini:
Funding for the Houston Ismaili Center primarily comes from His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, which is a part of the Aga Khan Development Network. The project reflects a long-term vision to establish a center in the United States that represents the values of the Ismaili community.
The project is a major undertaking led by the Aga Khan Development Network, headed by the spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.
The funding is a result of the long-term aspiration of His Highness the Aga Khan to have an Ismaili Center in the U.S..
While the total project cost is private, the funding is a central component of the development and construction.
No surprise. Same state brought us 1 LBJ and 2 Bushs.
So sad to see HOUSTON lost to the Muslim invaders, I’m sure the mayor will have their flag flying over it hall.
Looks like mostly street and sidewalk.
“We need to stop recognizing them as a religion, which they aren’t.”
It’s like a python that has to wrap the victim’s feet first to use as an anchor leverage point for the rest of it’s loving embrace. Then the python squeezes progressively tighter with each exhalation until there is no more. Finally it swallows.
Europe is in the full body wrapping phase. The US has it’s feet wrapped and must cut the tail off.
In the spirit of Aloha Snackbar, where is Timmothy McVeigh when you need him..
At some point, someone is going to have to take on the task of terminating the right of these people to immigrate to the U.S. and deport the ones already here. The states cannot do it and so it will have to be the federal government. It will probably require a showing this group is not really a religious group but a group bent on conquest masked as a religion.
Every politician that allowed Muslims to come to America should be tried for crimes against the American people
How did Texas allow a terrorist recruitment site get built ?????? HOW?????
I asked Grok where the AKDN get its funds from. The top donors are the UN (aka American taxpayer) and USAID.
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