List of mosques in Germany

Last updated

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.

Contents

Baden-Württemberg

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Schwetzingen Park Mosque Schwetzingen 1779UOldest mosque architecture in Germany. Non-functional as a mosque.
Mimar Sinan Masjid Mosbach Mosbach 1990sDITIB
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque Mannheim-Jungbusch 1995DITIBCapacity: 2.500.
Große Moschee Buggingen 1998DITIB
Alperenler Masjid Rheinfelden (Baden) 1996DITIB
Fatih Masjid Heilbronn 1987IGMG
Mevlana Masjid Eppingen 1996IGMG
Central Masjid Offenburg Offenburg 2002DITIB
Bait-ul-Ahad Mosque Bruchsal 2012AMJEisenbahnstraße 8

76646 Bruchsal [1]

Baitul Afiyat Mosque Waldshut-Tiengen 2017AMJ

Bavaria

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Freimann Masjid Munich-Freimann 1973IZMFoundation 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 2005U https://web.archive.org/web/20141223133238/http://www.irsmm.org/content/penzberg-mosque-bavaria-germany
Masjid in Sendling Munich-Sendling 1989DITIB

Berlin

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Wünsdorf Mosque Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1915UWilmersdorfer 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 2004DITIBArchitect: Hilmi Şenalp; Capacity: 1.550.
Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque Berlin-Kreuzberg 2008U
Khadija Mosque Berlin-Heinersdorf 2008AMJ
Fussilet mosqueBerlin / 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]

Bremen

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Fatih Mosque Bremen-Gröpelingen 1999IGMGCapacity: 1.300

Hamburg

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarksHeight Minaret (m)
Fazl-e-Omar Mosque Hamburg-Lokstedt 1957 [4] AMJFirst mosque built after World War II in Germany8
Imam Ali Mosque Hamburg-Uhlenhorst 1965 [4] ShBuild by Iranian business men16
Hamburg Central Mosque Hamburg-St. Georg 1977IGMG36 to floor
20 steel tower structure [5]
Al-Nour Mosque (Hamburg) Hamburg-Horn 2018Islamisches Zentrum Al-Nour e.V. - 'Kuwait'Former abandoned church that has been turned into a mosque44

Hessen

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Abu Bakr Moschee Frankfurt am Main 1966IGF Islamische Gemeinde Frankfurt e.V.one of the biggest mosques in Frankfurt
Noor Mosque Frankfurt am Main 1959AMJ
Anwar Mosque Rodgau 2008AMJ
Nuur-ud-Din Mosque Darmstadt 2003AMJHaasstraße 1a

64293 Darmstadt [6]

Bait-ul-Baqi Mosque Dietzenbach ?AMJTheodor-Heuss-Ring 48

63128 Dietzenbach [7]

Baitus Shakur Groß-Gerau 1992AMJBiggest Ahmadiyya mosque in Germany. Capacity: 850.
Baitul Huda Mosque Usingen 2004AMJ
Fatih Mosque Stadtallendorf 2004DITIB
Bait-ul Aziz Riedstadt 2004AMJ
Muqeet Mosque Wabern 2007AMJ
Bashir Mosque Bensheim 2006AMJ
Baitul Ghafur Ginsheim-Gustavsburg 2011AMJLange Streng 13

65462 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg [8]

Baitul Hadi Mosque Seligenstadt 2011AMJ
Baitul Baqi Dietzenbach 2011AMJ
Baitul Aman Nidda 2011AMJ
Ata Mosque Flörsheim am Main  ?AMJAltkönigstraße 10

65439 Flörsheim am Main [9]

Dar-ul-Amaan Mosque Friedberg  ?AMJStrassheimer Straße 16

61169 Friedberg [10]

Baitus Samad Mosque Giessen 2017AMJMarburger Straße 83

35396 Gießen [11]

Bait-ul-Wahid Mosque Hanau  ?AMJHafenstraße 6

63450 Hanau [12]

Sadiq Mosque Karben  ?AMJAm Spitzacker 18b

61184 Karben [13]

Mahmud Mosque Kassel  ?AMJGraf-Haeseler-Straße 6

34134 Kassel [14]

Mevlana Mosque (Kassel-Oberzwehren)  [ de ] [15] Kassel2014U

Lower Saxony

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Baitus Sami Hannover 2008AMJ
Salimya Mosque Göttingen 2006DITIB
Islamisches Kulturzentrum Wolfsburg Wolfsburg  ?ULocated 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/

North Rhine-Westphalia

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Alnoor Islamic Zentrum Belecke  ?UMaintained by Islamisches Zentrum Belecke
Bilal Mosque Aachen 1964IZAMaintained 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 1987DITIB
King Fahd Mosque Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1995SA
Baitul Momin Münster-Hiltrup 2003AMJ
Vatan Mosque Bielefeld-Brackwede 2004DITIB
Merkez Mosque Wuppertal-Elberfeld  ?DITIB
Nasir Mosque Isselburg 2007AMJ
Hürth Camii Hürth 2004Ditib
DITIB-Merkez-Moschee Duisburg 2008 [16] DITIB4th largest mosque in Germany, Capacity: 1.200.
Cologne Central Mosque Cologne 2017DITIBConstruction began 2009. The largest mosque in Germany. [17]

Rhineland-Palatinate

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Hamd Mosque Wittlich 1998AMJCapacity: 600.
Tahir Mosque (Koblenz)  [ de ] Koblenz-Lützel 2004AMJ

Saxony

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
al-Rahman Mosque Leipzig 1998U Website of al-Rahman Mosque as of 09/2020

Schleswig-Holstein

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Centrum Masjid Rendsburg Rendsburg 2008IGMGCapacity: 300; 2 Minarets à 26 m.
Bait-ul-Habib Mosque Kiel 25 August 2004AMJ https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/kiel/; Flintbeker Straße 7

24113 Kiel

Thuringia

NameImagesCityYearGroupRemarks
Ar-Rahman Mosque Gera 2010Umaintained by Ar-Rahman e.V. [18]
Haus des Orients Weimar 2001Umaintained by Haus des Orients e.V., [19] current Website as of 09/2020

Group

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
SASaudi Arabia (Wahhabism)
Sh Shia Islam
TJ Tablighi Jamaat
UUnknown

See also

References

  1. "Bruchsal - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  2. Heil, Georg (February 22, 2017). "The Berlin Attack and the "Abu Walaa" Islamic State Recruitment Network". Combating Terrorism Center . Retrieved March 28, 2017. 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.
  3. Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (12 June 2017). "Frauenrechtlerin gründet Moschee: "Unsere Religion nicht den Rückständigen überlassen" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politik". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2017-06-16.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. 1 2 Ossama Hegazy (2015). "Towards a German Mosque". In Erkan Toğuşlu (ed.). Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe. Leuven University Press. pp. 193–216. ISBN   978-94-6270-032-1.
  5. "Minarte History". 3 October 2019.
  6. "Darmstadt - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  7. "Dietzenbach - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  8. "Ginsheim-Gustavsburg - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  9. "Flörsheim - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  10. "Friedberg - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  11. "Gießen - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  12. "Hanau - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  13. "Karben - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  14. "Kassel - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  15. "Nach sechs Jahren: Moschee für 3,5 Millionen Euro fast fertig", Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German), 15 May 2014
  16. "Muslim Integration: Why No One Protested against Germany's Biggest Mosque", Der Spiegel, 27 October 2008
  17. "How Recep Tayyip Erdogan seduces Turkish migrants in Europe". The Economist . 31 August 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  18. "Ar-Rahman e.V., Gera".
  19. "Haus des Orients e.V., Weimar".