Kababir (; ) is a mixed neighbourhood with a majority of Ahmadiyya Muslim Arabs and a significant minority of Jews in Haifa, Israel.
History
The
Ahmadiyya was founded in the 19th century, originating in
India and settled in Kababir. Most of the families who were displaced to Kababir are originally from the village of Ni'lin near
Jerusalem. One of the biggest and most well known family is the Odeh's family. They built the neighbourhood's first
mosque on
Mount Carmel in 1931, and a larger grand mosque in the 1980s. Also, the Shambor family is one of the biggest in neighborhood. The Mosque is named after the second Ahmadi Khalifa Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad. The grand mosque has two white
standing 34 metres tall, which dominate the low-rise skyline of the residential neighbourhoods on the ridges nearby. In the beginning, the neighbourhood was managed as a commune, in which every working male contributed a fee to a mutual account. Some of the men joined the Turkish army, while some worked in the oil refinery in the city of
Haifa. Others worked building the Port of Haifa.
See also
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Ahmadiyya in Israel
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Mahmood Mosque (Kababir)
