Husaini Masjid, Livonia — North America's Largest Bohra Community

Livonia, Michigan — a suburb of Detroit — is home to the largest Dawoodi Bohra community in North America. The Husaini Masjid of Livonia is one of the most significant Bohra institutions in the Western Hemisphere, serving as the religious, social, and community center for Bohras across Michigan and the surrounding region. The Bohra community in Michigan grew significantly from the 1970s onwards as Indian professionals and entrepreneurs — many of them Bohras — immigrated to the United States under the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, which opened America to skilled immigrants from South Asia. The Livonia community has become a model of how the Bohra community maintains its religious practices, identity, and walayah in a non-Muslim-majority country. Ashara Mubaraka in Livonia draws mumineen from across the North American Bohra diaspora — from New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and beyond. The Husaini Masjid complex includes facilities for prayer, education, community events, and the full cycle of Bohra religious observances. The community is active in civic life, interfaith dialogue, and charitable work — a visible presence of the Bohra tradition in the American Midwest.