Mosque Theatre

Title

Mosque Theatre

Description

The Mosque Theatre opened in Newark in 1925. As part of Salaam Temple, it sat 3,500, contained a spacious orchestra pit, 19 dressing rooms, a property room, a musician's room, and a library. Modern Greek in treatment it was architecturally, " one of the distinctive achievements of the city. The entire building was design by George W. Backoff, Frank Grad and Henry Baechlin, architects" (Motion Picture News, 1925).

State

extant

Bibliography

Motion Picture News (Sep-Oct 1925)
http://www.archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew00moti_9#page/n557/mode/2up

Style

Greek Revival

Files

mosque_image.JPG
mosque_newark_salaam.JPG

Collection

Buildings

Tags

Citation

“Mosque Theatre,” DANA, accessed November 18, 2024, https://dana.njit.edu/items/show/99.

Output Formats

Geolocation


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