Mosque Theatre
subject: theaters (buildings)
description: The Mosque Theatre opened in Newark in 1925. As part of Salaam Temple, it sat 3,500, contained a spacious orchestra pit, 19 dressing rooms, a property room, a musician's room, and a library. Modern Greek in treatment it was architecturally, " one of the distinctive achievements of the city. The entire building was design by George W. Backoff, Frank Grad and Henry Baechlin, architects" (Motion Picture News, 1925).