Founded in 1995 by Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, a Michigan resident for over 35 years and community leader. KIEC was the first IraqiIslamicCenter in Michigan.
The Karbala Education Center is located along a busy commercial strip in the heart of a thriving Middle Eastern community in Dearborn, a middle-class suburb of Detroit. The strip is lined with numerous Middle Eastern restaurants, bakeries, clothing stores, and markets selling Halal meat. The Karbala Islamic Education Center, housed in a former nightclub that had been damaged by fire, contains approximately 10,000 square feet of space that have been converted into a prayer room, offices, an all-purpose meeting room, an audio-visual room, kitchen, and an area to hold a weekend school for children.
It is run by Imam Husham Al-Husainy and other community members.
