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Mahmood Mosque - Mount Carmel, Kababir, Haifa, Israel

The neighborhood's first mosque on Mount Carmel was built in 1931, and a larger grand mosque in the 1970s. The Mosque is named after the second Khalifa of the promised messiah Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad, the son of the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who is Also known as the "Promised Reformer". 

The grand mosque has two white minaretes standing 35 meters tall, which dominate the low-rise skyline of the residential neighborhoods on the ridges nearby. The mosque has been subsidized entirely by the members of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.