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Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) acquires 7.6 acres of prime land on Bellevue-Redmond border for 45M
Welcome to the Muslim Association of Puget Sound
Founded to serve the Muslims of Puget Sound and the wider community, MAPS is the largest Islamic Center in Washington, with locations in Redmond, Seattle and Snohomish County and a diverse community of over 7,000 families from more than 50 countries. We invite you to learn more about MAPS online, or visit us in person.
https://mapsredmond.org/
Our Mission
Establish an active Masjid, adhering to Islamic principles, with a welcoming environment, high quality services, a platform for community engagement and ideas to flourish, that brings benefits to Muslims and the wider community.
About the Project
MAPS’ acquisition of the 146K sqft VIBE campus on 7.6 acres of prime land on the Bellevue-Redmond border fits squarely within its 30-year vision for the local area Muslim community. By the grace of Almighty Allah, our organization has made tremendous progress since its inception in 2006. We started as a small entity serving the immediate religious needs of a few Muslim families. Since those early days though, we had set our vision to much loftier goals: improve the life of our community members and the society we live in by following the teachings of our noble Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). As such we have diligently worked these past 2 decades to build an institution that today spends over a million dollars annually in charity, teaches business practices to entrepreneurs, trains scores in technology and IT, repairs nature parks and trails, hosts free health and legal clinics, advocates for equal rights to all, encourages artistic expressions, celebrates cultural diversity, all the while serving the cradle-to-grave spiritual needs of 7000 Muslim families in the Pacific Northwest. MAPS is now spread over 3 campuses and serves as a springboard launching individuals and other organizations who are serving our society in a variety of ways.
However, while we have made tremendous progress in the past 2 decades, we still have much work to do. As a community, American Muslims are still weak. We all felt this in the past year as we have been powerless in preventing the genocide that is taking place in Gaza. We need to continue building our community in a way that leverages all the work we have done to-date and takes it to the next level. A larger facility and better infrastructure are the first key component to enable us to achieve that. The Vibe campus fits within this broader vision that is still in the making.
Our New Home
The VIBE campus comprises of 3 Class A buildings located on 148th Avenue NE, opposite to Pro-Club. The buildings are optimally located between Bellevue and Redmond, near large residential complexes, in the tech corridor, at a walking distance from Microsoft and the Light Rail metro station. At 146K sq ft, it would be 3 times the size of our current facility. MAPS has negotiated an arrangement with Medina Academy (who runs many of its classes in our Redmond center today) to acquire one of the three buildings as the future site for its middle and high schools. The campus then will be a full-service Islamic center with full-time schools, a mosque, and plenty of spaces for the various services we offer and use by our community.
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