The booming Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, attracted migrants from around the world in the 1920s, including Shiʿi Muslims from southern Lebanon. While other migrant communities that arrived in Dearborn already had established institutional centers elsewhere in Michigan, Dearborn had the first significant community of Lebanese Shiʿah in the area. Later migration waves from Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip gradually increased the proportion of Muslims in Dearborn.
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