The Islamic community of Iguassu pledged itself in the construction of the Mosque, whose basic rock was launched in 1981. After two years, in 23 of March of 1983, officially it was inaugurated, taking the name of one of the most complete and merciful men of Muslim history, the predestined Omar Ibn Al-Khatab.
The constructed area is of 600 m² and possesss a oval room of approximately 400m². Its orientation is given by the Mihrab, made in the posterior wall of the Mosque and indicative of the direction of the City Saint of Meca, toward where the Muslim in conjunct comes back the face. The Mosque of Iguassu is a sumptuous temple, with a interior of incredible beauty. It is decorated with arabesques, geometric figures in perfect and unified drawings.
The art is abstract and the architecture, of religious character in its bigger part. Minaretes calls the attention, towers that surround the Mosque. Primorosas, although its specific function to always have been of a high place where the call to the conjunct resounded five times per day, the towers also has other functions, being most important of blinking.