Charlotte mosques and masjids: addresses and community services

Charlotte's mosques serve several parts of the city and support different combinations of worship, education, gatherings, and community services. This guide gives five named starting points with their published addresses. It does not rank congregations or assume that a building offers every service a visitor may need. The official websites below are the place to check current schedules and arrange a visit.

Five places to start

Pillars' contact page and homepage publish 3116 Johnston Oehler Road. Some other pages on its site display 3110 with a different spelling of the road. Use the contact page as the starting address and confirm the event entrance with the organizer. This inconsistency matters more than choosing a seemingly precise map pin without checking it.

Islamic Center of Charlotte: Progress Lane

ICC's Progress Lane mosque is a longstanding local institution. Levine Museum of the New South documents its beginnings in an adapted church and includes an identified exterior photograph from 2024. Its historical account also discusses Charlotte Islamic Academy and Al-Nour Community Center as related parts of the institution's development.

For a visitor, the important distinction is that these are separate destinations. An activity associated with ICC may not take place at Progress Lane. Read the location on the actual announcement before leaving. ICC's current website provides routes to community services and volunteer information; a historical museum page supplies background rather than today's arrival instructions.

Masjid Ash-Shaheed: West Sugar Creek Road

Ash-Shaheed's published history traces the community from Charlotte Masjid of Al-Islam in 1989 through several earlier meeting places. It records the move to West Sugar Creek Road on September 15, 2006. The community explains its own affiliations and leadership on its website, giving a visitor more context than a generic mosque-directory entry.

The West Sugar Creek address is especially useful when an older account mentions Tuckaseegee Road. Those references describe an earlier stage of the congregation. Use the current community site for programs and contact arrangements, and the history page to understand why older names and locations appear in local records.

Masjid-al-Mustafa: The Plaza

The Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte identifies its mosque as Masjid-al-Mustafa. Beyond worship and education, its official site describes facility rental and sports booking. These services may be relevant to someone organizing a graduation, family gathering, or community event rather than a regular prayer visit.

Its facility page distinguishes Bilal Hall from Umar Hall. Bilal's listed amenities include a kitchen, sound system, tables and chairs, parking, a playground, and access to a gymnasium. Umar is presented for smaller gatherings, with a stated banquet capacity of 75. These are booking details, not a promise of unrestricted public access. The facility page provides a request form and coordinator contact route.

Pillars Mosque: Johnston Oehler Road

Pillars states that it was established in 2018 and was previously called Muslim Community Center. Both names can therefore appear in recommendations or older event material. Its website includes a calendar, academy information, volunteering, and financial-aid pages.

Use the current event entry to establish whether an activity requires registration and which part of the facility it uses. A calendar subscription can help regular attendees follow updates, but a saved invitation still needs a current location check, particularly given the site's address inconsistency noted above.

Muslim Education Center: Shamrock Drive

MEC's website brings together a mosque, educational activity, and community-service links. These include Shifa Free Health Clinic and the MAS Immigration Justice Center. Their presence on a campus website is a useful lead, but it does not establish appointment availability, eligibility, or a walk-in arrangement.

Choose the program's own contact route for service questions. For all five mosques, step-free routes, women's entrances, accessible restrooms, and arrangements for groups were not independently inspected for this guide. Confirm the facilities relevant to your visit with the host. Our first mosque visit guide covers the shared planning questions without replacing each congregation's own instructions.