In the aftermath of the World War I, many Muslim immigrants arrived in São Paulo after fleeing troubles in the Middle East.

[4] The Society began holding congregation prayers, initially in rented rooms in Av Rangel Pestana and Barão de Duprat in São Paulo, and then, in 1938, they acquired land and shifted prayers to the Avenue of the State.

Do Estado, 5,382, Cambuci, São Paulo and began construction of the Mesquita Brasil, as the first Brazilian mosque.

Hussein Zulfaqqar Sabry, Deputy Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic, representing the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

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