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This is a list of mosques in Germany by states. According to the Bundestag researchers, Germany is home to "at least 2,350 to 2,750 mosque congregations or associations". The Central Council of Muslims in Germany announced in early October that there are roughly 2,500 mosques.
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schwetzingen Park Mosque | Schwetzingen | 1779 | U | Oldest mosque architecture in Germany. Non-functional as a mosque. | |
| Mimar Sinan Masjid Mosbach | Mosbach | 1990s | DITIB | ||
| Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque | Mannheim-Jungbusch | 1995 | DITIB | Capacity: 2.500. | |
| Große Moschee | Buggingen | 1998 | DITIB | ||
| Alperenler Masjid | Rheinfelden (Baden) | 1996 | DITIB | ||
| Fatih Masjid | Heilbronn | 1987 | IGMG | ||
| Mevlana Masjid | Eppingen | 1996 | IGMG | ||
| Central Masjid Offenburg | Offenburg | 2002 | DITIB | ||
| Bait-ul-Ahad Mosque | Bruchsal | 2012 | AMJ | Eisenbahnstraße 8 76646 Bruchsal [1] | |
| Baitul Afiyat Mosque | Waldshut-Tiengen | 2017 | AMJ |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freimann Masjid | Munich-Freimann | 1973 | IZM | Foundation stone in 6. October 1967 | |
| Bait-un-Naseer Mosque | Augsburg | ? | AMJ | https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/augsburg/ ;Donauwörther Straße 165, 86154 Augsburg | |
| Penzberg Islamic Forum | Penzberg | 2005 | U | https://web.archive.org/web/20141223133238/http://www.irsmm.org/content/penzberg-mosque-bavaria-germany | |
| Masjid in Sendling | Munich-Sendling | 1989 | DITIB |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wünsdorf Mosque | Berlin-Wilmersdorf | 1915 | U | Wilmersdorfer Moschee The oldest standing mosque in Germany—the Wünsdorf Mosque, built in 1915 at the Halbmondlager POW camp, was Germany's first, but it was demolished in 1925–26. | |
| Berlin Mosque | Berlin-Wilmersdorf | 1924-1927 | AAIIL | ||
| Şehitlik Mosque (Berlin) | Berlin-Neukölln | 2004 | DITIB | Architect: Hilmi Şenalp; Capacity: 1.550. | |
| Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque | Berlin-Kreuzberg | 2008 | U | ||
| Khadija Mosque | Berlin-Heinersdorf | 2008 | AMJ | ||
| Fussilet mosque | Berlin / Friedrich-Krause-Ufer | ? | Fussilet 33 e.V. [2] | ||
| Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque | Berlin | 2017 | Seyran Ateş | It is the first liberal mosque in Germany. Burqa and niqāb are banned. Men and women pray together. Women aren't forced to wear a headscarf. [3] |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatih Mosque | Bremen-Gröpelingen | 1999 | IGMG | Capacity: 1.300 |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks | Height Minaret (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fazl-e-Omar Mosque | Hamburg-Lokstedt | 1957 [4] | AMJ | First mosque built after World War II in Germany | 8 | |
| Imam Ali Mosque | Hamburg-Uhlenhorst | 1965 [4] | Sh | Build by Iranian business men | 16 | |
| Hamburg Central Mosque | Hamburg-St. Georg | 1977 | IGMG | 36 to floor 20 steel tower structure [5] | ||
| Al-Nour Mosque (Hamburg) | Hamburg-Horn | 2018 | Islamisches Zentrum Al-Nour e.V. - 'Kuwait' | Former abandoned church that has been turned into a mosque | 44 |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Bakr Moschee | Frankfurt am Main | 1966 | IGF Islamische Gemeinde Frankfurt e.V. | one of the biggest mosques in Frankfurt | |
| Noor Mosque | Frankfurt am Main | 1959 | AMJ | ||
| Anwar Mosque | Rodgau | 2008 | AMJ | ||
| Nuur-ud-Din Mosque | Darmstadt | 2003 | AMJ | Haasstraße 1a 64293 Darmstadt [6] | |
| Bait-ul-Baqi Mosque | Dietzenbach | ? | AMJ | Theodor-Heuss-Ring 48 63128 Dietzenbach [7] | |
| Baitus Shakur | Groß-Gerau | 1992 | AMJ | Biggest Ahmadiyya mosque in Germany. Capacity: 850. | |
| Baitul Huda Mosque | Usingen | 2004 | AMJ | ||
| Fatih Mosque | Stadtallendorf | 2004 | DITIB | ||
| Bait-ul Aziz | Riedstadt | 2004 | AMJ | ||
| Muqeet Mosque | Wabern | 2007 | AMJ | ||
| Bashir Mosque | Bensheim | 2006 | AMJ | ||
| Baitul Ghafur | Ginsheim-Gustavsburg | 2011 | AMJ | Lange Streng 13 65462 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg [8] | |
| Baitul Hadi Mosque | Seligenstadt | 2011 | AMJ | ||
| Baitul Baqi | Dietzenbach | 2011 | AMJ | ||
| Baitul Aman | Nidda | 2011 | AMJ | ||
| Ata Mosque | Flörsheim am Main | ? | AMJ | Altkönigstraße 10 65439 Flörsheim am Main [9] | |
| Dar-ul-Amaan Mosque | Friedberg | ? | AMJ | Strassheimer Straße 16 61169 Friedberg [10] | |
| Baitus Samad Mosque | Giessen | 2017 | AMJ | Marburger Straße 83 35396 Gießen [11] | |
| Bait-ul-Wahid Mosque | Hanau | ? | AMJ | Hafenstraße 6 63450 Hanau [12] | |
| Sadiq Mosque | Karben | ? | AMJ | Am Spitzacker 18b 61184 Karben [13] | |
| Mahmud Mosque | Kassel | ? | AMJ | Graf-Haeseler-Straße 6 34134 Kassel [14] | |
| Mevlana Mosque (Kassel-Oberzwehren) [15] | Kassel | 2014 | U |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baitus Sami | Hannover | 2008 | AMJ | ||
| Salimya Mosque | Göttingen | 2006 | DITIB | ||
| Islamisches Kulturzentrum Wolfsburg | Wolfsburg | ? | U | Located at Berliner Ring 39, 38440 Wolfsburg. The Imam is Arabic. This mosque attracts all the Muslims in the city, majority of which are Turkish. Official website : http://www.islam-wolfsburg.de/ |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alnoor Islamic Zentrum | Belecke | ? | U | Maintained by Islamisches Zentrum Belecke | |
| Bilal Mosque | Aachen | 1964 | IZA | Maintained by Islamisches Zentrum Aachen | |
| Mansoor Mosque | Aachen | ? | AMJ | https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/aachen/;Feldstraße 47 (im Navi 45) 52070 Aachen | |
| Wesseling Mosque „Mimar Sinan Camii“ | Wesseling | 1987 | DITIB | ||
| King Fahd Mosque | Bonn-Bad Godesberg | 1995 | SA | ||
| Baitul Momin | Münster-Hiltrup | 2003 | AMJ | ||
| Vatan Mosque | Bielefeld-Brackwede | 2004 | DITIB | ||
| Merkez Mosque | Wuppertal-Elberfeld | ? | DITIB | ||
| Nasir Mosque | Isselburg | 2007 | AMJ | ||
| Hürth Camii | Hürth | 2004 | Ditib | ||
| DITIB-Merkez-Moschee | Duisburg | 2008 [16] | DITIB | 4th largest mosque in Germany, Capacity: 1.200. | |
| Cologne Central Mosque | Cologne | 2017 | DITIB | Construction began 2009. The largest mosque in Germany. [17] |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamd Mosque | Wittlich | 1998 | AMJ | Capacity: 600. | |
| Tahir Mosque (Koblenz) | Koblenz-Lützel | 2004 | AMJ |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| al-Rahman Mosque | Leipzig | 1998 | U | Website of al-Rahman Mosque as of 09/2020 |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centrum Masjid Rendsburg | Rendsburg | 2008 | IGMG | Capacity: 300; 2 Minarets à 26 m. | |
| Bait-ul-Habib Mosque | Kiel | 25 August 2004 | AMJ | https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/kiel/; Flintbeker Straße 7 24113 Kiel |
| Name | Images | City | Year | Group | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ar-Rahman Mosque | Gera | 2010 | U | maintained by Ar-Rahman e.V. [18] | ||
| Haus des Orients | Weimar | 2001 | U | maintained by Haus des Orients e.V., [19] current Website as of 09/2020 |
| AAIIL | Lahore Ahmadiyya Group |
| AMJ | Ahmadiyya Muslim Community |
| ATIB | Union der Türkisch-Islamischen Kulturvereine in Europa |
| DITIB | Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği |
| IGMG | Millî Görüş |
| IZA | Islamic Centre Aachen |
| IZM | Islamic Centre Munich |
| SA | Saudi Arabia (Wahhabism) |
| Sh | Shia Islam |
| TJ | Tablighi Jamaat |
| U | Unknown |
Islam's significance in Germany has largely increased after the labour migration in the 1960s and several waves of political refugees since the 1970s.
The Islamic Centre Hamburg, also known as the Blue Mosque, was the oldest mosque in Hamburg, Germany, being established in the late 1950s by a group of Iranian emigrants and business people and built in the early 1960s. Amid investigations regarding its ties with Iran and Hezbollah, the IZH was judged unconstitutional and closed by the German government in July 2024.
Islam in Switzerland has mostly arrived via immigration since the late 20th century. Numbering below 1% of total population in 1980, the fraction of Muslims in the population of permanent residents in Switzerland has quintupled in thirty years, estimated at just above 5% as of 2013. A majority is from Former Yugoslavia ; an additional 20% is from Turkey.There is also a large North African community and a significant Middle Eastern community. This is due to the fact that in the 1960s and 1970s, Switzerland encouraged young men from Yugoslavia and Turkey to come as guest workers. Initially these young men were only planning on staying in Switzerland temporarily, however, revised Swiss immigration laws in the 1970s permitted family regrouping. Consequently, these men ended up staying in Switzerland as these new laws allowed the wives and children of these young men into the country. Since this time period, most of the Muslim immigration to Switzerland stems from asylum seekers arriving primarily from Eastern Europe.
Seyran Ateş is a German lawyer and a Muslim feminist. She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims. Ateş is best known for challenging conventional ideas in Islamic teaching by opening a mosque in Berlin which breaks with traditionalist precepts of what being a Muslim means.
Berlin Mosque in Berlin is situated on Brienner Straße 7-8 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It was designed by K. A. Hermann and was built between 1923 and 1925. Berlin Mosque, which has two 27-metre-tall (90 ft) minarets, was heavily damaged in World War II. The two minarets were rebuilt in 1999/2001.
The Cologne Central Mosque is a building commissioned by German Muslims of the Organization DİTİB for a large, representative Zentralmoschee in Cologne, Germany. This mosque was inaugurated by Turkish President Erdogan. After controversy, the project won the approval of Cologne's city council.
Khadija Mosque is a mosque located in Heinersdorf, Pankow, Berlin, Germany. It is property of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and the first mosque in former East Germany, opening on 16 October 2008. The mosque has a 12-metre-high (39 ft) minaret and has capacity for 500 worshippers. The mosque was financed by funds collected by Ahmadiyya women and the design was done by the architect Mubashra Ilyas.
The Mahmood Mosque, situated in Forchstrasse, Zurich, is the first purpose-built mosque in Switzerland. It is owned and run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The mosque has a minaret, the new construction of which is now banned in Switzerland by popular vote.
The Noor Mosque in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen is the third purpose-built mosque in Germany. The mosque in Babenhäuser Landstraße is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) and was inaugurated on September, 12th 1959 by Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan.
The Fazl-e-Omar Mosque in Hamburg is the second purpose-built mosque in Germany. The mosque is named after the Second Caliph Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and is located at the street of Wieckstraße in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg. It is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) and was inaugurated on July 22, 1957, by Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan. The foundation stone was laid on February 22, 1957.
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Nuur-ud-Din Mosque in Darmstadt, Germany is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The foundation stone was laid in May 2002 and was inaugurated in August 2003 by 5th Caliph of the Messiah, Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The mosque is named after 1st Caliph of the Messiah, Hakeem Noor-ud-Din.
The Baitus Sami mosque is located in the German city of Hanover. It has both a dome and minaret, although the minaret is too slender to be climbed. Built by an Ahmadiyya community, the mosque comprises approximately 2,800 square metres (30,000 sq ft), with space for 300 worshippers. Situated at a street in an industrial area outside a nearby residential area, it was inaugurated in August 2008 by the Caliph of the community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The construction of the mosque was opposed by many local people, with sometimes violent protests.
The Raiwind Mosque is a prominent Mosque in Raiwand, in Lahore District, Pakistan, associated with the charity Tablighi Jamaat. The Tablighi movement holds a large annual festival in Raywand.
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The 100-Mosques-Plan is the project of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Germany to build 100 new mosques. It was initiated by Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the Khalifatul Masih IV, during the centenary celebrations of the community in 1989. The project is completely financed by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Germany, through collections from the members. The plans and the execution of the projects is also mostly performed by German Ahmadis voluntarily. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has total of 52 mosques and 65 prayer centres in Germany.
The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-described liberal mosque in Germany. It was inaugurated in June 2017, and is named after medieval Andalusian-Arabic polymath Ibn Rushd and German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The mosque was founded by Seyran Ateş, a German lawyer and Muslim feminist of Kurdish descent. The mosque is characterised as liberal; it bans face-covering, it allows women and men to pray together, and it accepts LGBT worshippers.
The Day of the Open Mosque in Germany is an annually scheduled event day that has existed since 1997 and takes place on October 3, the Day of German Unity. On this day, the mosque communities offer the predominantly non-Muslim visitors mosque tours, panel discussions and book and art exhibitions. Folklore, tea, coffee and pastries are also often part of the social program.
Both men also attended prayers at the Fussilet mosque in Berlin, which Amri visited on the day of the attack and where he used to sleep occasionally. The Fussilet mosque is run by an association named "Fussilet 33 e.V.," which had already attracted police attention for suspected Islamic State recruiting.
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