Masjid al-Ikhlas
Previously, Newburgh's Muslim community met in town's NAACP office or a local store front.In 2005, the mosque began an expansion project to accommodate the growing Muslim population of the Hudson Valley.Plans were made to double the existing size of the mosque to 6,750 square feet (627 m2), including a large dome based on a mold made for the Masjid Al-Noor mosque in the nearby town of Wappinger Falls.[1][2] The mosque came to national attention when it was revealed that it had been regularly attended by four men who were arrested in the 2009 Bronx terrorism plot, a plan, stopped by the FBI, to shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh and blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale neighborhood of New York City.[3][4][5] Shahed Hussain, an Albany hotel owner now known to have been an FBI informant, regularly attended the mosque, approaching congregants in the parking lot after Friday services and talking of jihad and violence.