Mesquita Omar Ibn Al-Khattab

Attraction - Sequence 2201

Location
Waypoint Information
NameMesquita Omar Ibn Al-Khattab
LocationBrasil, Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu
Sequence2201
TypeAttraction
Delay Duration1 hour
Notes

The day says goodbye to Brazil on two very different notes — a visit to the country's largest mosque, then a walk along its most famous waterfall system — before crossing into Argentina on the bridge that finally ended a century of ferry crossings between the two countries.

Morning at the Mosque

The day begins at the Mesquita Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, raised in the early 1980s by fifty families of the local Muslim community, many of them Lebanese immigrants who'd arrived in Foz do Iguaçu to work on the Itaipu dam and found no place nearby to pray. Finished in 1983 after eighteen months of work, it's the largest mosque in Brazil and the second-largest in Latin America, behind only the King Fahd center in Buenos Aires — its octagonal prayer hall, roofed by what was at the time the largest free-span concrete dome in the region, holds several hundred worshippers beneath walls dense with arabesque detail.

Expected Weather
30-yr climate normalFriday, February 19, 2027
Temperature
High
86°F
81–91°F
Low
74°F
70–78°F

Precipitation
Chance
38%
Possible
Avg amount
4.9 mm
0–10.7 mm

Wind
Avg wind
5 mph
4–5 mph
Max gusts
7 mph
6–9 mph

Humidity
82%Translation missing: en.weather.humidity.very_humid
Estimated hourly temperature
Dawn
06:02
Solar noon
12:52
Peak
85.8°F ~15:16
Dusk
19:42
Expected±1σ range (68% of years)
Danger Zone

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