The Moses Lake Islamic Center installed carpet over the original floor in its new building, but retained much of the original woodwork, as well as the steel-tile ceiling. There was a steeple at one time, the building’s owner Gail Adair said, but it was removed decades ago during repairs and never returned.
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Prayer space: Moses Lake’s first mosque moves into renovated church building
MOSES LAKE — The former church building at Third Avenue and Elm Street is once again a house of worship, as the Moses Lake Islamic Center. “In central Washington state there (were) only three mosques, in Yakima, Tri-Cities and Spokane,” said Abdelnasir Elmalik, one of the regular congregants at the Islamic Center. “But now we have two (more), in Wenatchee and Moses Lake.”