The Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque in Maicao, La Guajira (Colombia), is one of the largest mosques in Latin America, inaugurated on September 17, 1997 with a 31 m high minaret.

At the entrance, there is a large hall with paintings and its Arabic captions. Further on, there is another hall, larger than the previous one, used by the men to pray. They also gather there when they break their fast.

On the ceiling there are engravings and an interesting decoration, and in the direction of Mecca is the place where the women pray, it is an elevated place within the same great hall, a kind of lookout. The upper part of the building is dominated by the minaret.

Leaving the mosque, under the big stairs, there is a room where Muslims perform autopsies to their dead, they have only two drawers which are metal where they transport all their dead to the Muslim cemetery, located between 11th and 12th streets , there they bury them feet wrapped and without drawer.