Islamic Community of Salinas

Since the 1990s, a handful of Muslims in Salinas, Gonzalez, Castroville, Soledad, and other smaller towns in the area gathered for congregational prayers, services, and celebrations in a makeshift masjid in a rented hotel room. 

By May 2006, the congregation had grown enough to justify a move to a larger rented building at 333 Capital St. By 2012, the congregation raised funds to purchase the building at 35 W. Market St. The nearly 1,100 sq. foot building has amenities including a prayer hall that accommodates up to 150 congregants, full bathrooms,  and a large parking lot. Today, about 200 to 300 Muslims - or 50 families - call Salinas home.