Federation: Moorish Science Temple of America (Grand Temple) is a religious temple within the Moorish Science Temple of America, a movement founded in 1913 by Prophet Noble Drew Ali. The organization teaches that Moorish-Americans are part of the United States and should obey its laws and be good citizens. Source notes describe the temple tradition as established with the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey, and as continuing under later leaders who kept its doors open for all.