The Islamic Center of America (Arabic: المركز الإسلامي في اميركا‎ is a Shia mosquelocated in Dearborn, Michigan. Although the institution dates back to 1964, the new mosque opened in 2005. It is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest Shiamosque in the United States.With its large Shia Arab population (consisting mostly ofLebanese), Dearborn is often called the "heart of Shiism" in the United States

The Islamic Center of America is located at 19500 Ford Road in Dearborn. The institution was founded in 1963 by Muhammad Jawad Chirri, who remained its director until his death in 1994. The current Imam is Iraqi-born Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini.

The mosque was vandalized in January 2007 with anti-Shia graffiti. Many in the community believed that the vandalism was the result of recurrent sectarian tensions with the American Sunni Muslim community over the Iraq war and its Shia-Sunni conflict.

On January 24, 2011, an Imperial Beach, California man named Roger Stockham was arrested and charged with terrorism after attempting to blow up the Islamic Center of America. Stockham was reported to be a convert to Islam who was targeting the Shi'ite community,and had a history of mental illness and firearms offenses.

On April 21, 2011, the day before the scheduled appearance of Pastor Terry Jones, hundreds of people from different faiths gathered in a show of solidarity. Jews, Christians and other faith groups stood side by side with inter-locked arms in opposition to Jones' planned protest.

During the 2013 hajj, a group of Muslims who frequent and organized at the Islamic center of America travelled as a group to Mecca. While there, they were attacked by a group of up to 200 Lebanese-Australian Sunnis. Female Shias were threatened with rape if they did not leave the camp-site at Mina within "15 minutes". The largely Australian Sunni group denied the report on Facebook saying the Shia group started it by "insulting the Sahaba".