Muhammad’s Mosque No. 11 is established.

It is located initially in a home at 5 Wellington Street. The first Nation of Islam temple in Boston, its first minister is Malcolm X. The congregation moves to a hall in the basement of 405 Massachusetts Avenue, to a storefront at 552 Columbus Avenue, and finally to a former synagogue at 35 Intervale Street in November 1957. Louis Farrakhan subsequently becomes minister. After the death of Elijah Muhammad, the congregation follows his son, Wallace Mohammed, into mainstream Islam and adopts the name the Masjid Al Qur’aan Mosque. A new Mosque 11 is founded in Grove Hall by followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in 1978.