[2] It was erected in the areas of a mansion in 1986 by the Palestinian community in the city's Magdalena del Mar district.

[2] In 1986 Miguel Abdalá Hamideh, a Palestinian businessman, donated his home to the Muslim community in Peru that saw its image affected by the actions of the Arab-Israeli conflict, at the same time also to provide an opening for Palestinian refugees arriving in Lima.

[2] The Islamic Association of Peru, which took leadership of the mosque, announced between the decades of 2000 and 2010 that it planned to build a much larger mosque in the same district of Magdalena del Mar, since the number of faithful already reached two thousand, between immigrants (refugees and tourists from the Islamic world)[1] and Peruvian converts, most of them from the Sunni branch.

[4] The Islamic building is located between jirón Tacna and Alfonso Ugarte avenue, a few kilometers from the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

[3] Its interior has separate musallas for women and men, filled with carpets for prayer towards Mecca in Saudi Arabia.