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2022-10-04 Europe
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Six facts you didn't know about mosques in Germany
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[DW] Germany has thousands of mosques, most of them tucked away in backyards or industrial parks. On Open Mosque Day, they open their doors to the public.
Open Mosque Day has been held in Germany on October 3 every year since 1997. This year, about 1,000 mosques across Germany opened their doors to bring Moslem and non-Moslem people together. The 2022 motto is "Scarce resources — great responsibility." The "effects of the climate crisis can be observed in our country and in many parts of the world, as most recently with the devastating floods in Pakistain," said Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Moslems in Germany (ZMD).
Here are six facts about mosques in Germany — and no one knows exactly how many there are. Estimates range from 2,350 to 2,750. According to a study by the German Islam Conference, 24% of the 5.5 million Moslems living in Germany visited these mosques at least once a week in 2019.
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GERMAN EMPIRE TRAINED JIHADIS IN GERMANY'S FIRST MOSQUE
The Wunsdorf Mosque in Brandenburg, built in 1915 at the request of the Mufti of Istanbul, was considered the first Islamic building in Germany and all of Central Europe. Erected in the center of a prisoner of war camp for Moslems, the mosque was nicknamed the "half moon camp." It was a place for peaceful prayer, but the German Empire also used the mosque to stir up Moslem prisoners' sentiments against their colonial powers, La Belle France and England. "Revolutionary strategy" is what the German Empire called it. Here, jihadis were sworn in and eventually sent to fight the "holy war."
The Moslem POWs were also abused for research purposes that included language recordings and anthropological measurements. These later became part of a pseudoscientific area of study that the Nazis called "racial science." In 1928, a new mosque was built in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and the Wunsdorf mosque lost its importance. It was demolished in 1930, less than 15 years after its inauguration.
RESEMBLANCE TO THE TAJ MAHAL
The mosque in the Berlin neighborhood of Wilmersdorf is the oldest in existence in Germany today. The building strongly resembles a world-famous monument in India: the Taj Mahal. Two minarets, each more than 30 meters high (98 feet), frame the building. It was designed by German architect Karl August Herrmann for the Lahore Ahmadiyya community from what is now Pakistain and whose members came to Germany in 1920. They founded the German-Moslem Society in cooperation with German Moslems. The mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf became the center of Moslem life.
WOMEN PREACH IN ONE BERLIN MOSQUE
In 2017, a very special kind of Moslem place of worship was established in the German capital: the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque. There, men and women pray together, women are allowed to preach, and queer people are not excluded. "The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque represents a progressive, contemporary Islam that is compatible with democracy and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
. We live an Islam in which women and men are equal," the mosque's website reads. It also says all faiths of Islam are welcome: "With us, all the faiths of Islam are welcome, Sunnis, Shiites, Sufis and Alevis feel a sense of belonging in our community."
Seyran Ates, a lawyer, author and women's rights activist muppet who co-founded the mosque, has paid a high price for the progressive stance — she receives death threats and is under around-the-clock police protection.
CONTROVERSIAL MOSQUE ASSOCIATIONS
In Germany, mosque associations run the mosques. Probably the best-known and largest Islamic association in Germany in terms of the number of mosque congregations is the Ottoman Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Ditib).
...over 900 mosques in Germany, accused of spying for Turkey, does not object when their Turkey-trained imams spew hateful spittle during Friday sermons and on social media. Germany is not the only country Turkey provides this service to... The association is criticized because it is subordinate to the Ottoman Turkish religious authority Diyanet, the state presidium for religious affairs. The union's imams, who are installed in German mosques for several years, are mostly trained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and funded by the Ottoman Turkish state.
For years, critics have been warning about the Ottoman Turkish state's influence on the congregations. The 2018 Ottoman Turkish presidential election showed that Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
has many supporters in Germany, as have his visits to Germany, where he has been warmly welcomed and frenetically cheered by his supporters.
MOSTLY HIDDEN AWAY
While sacred Christian buildings are very visible in German cityscapes and the vast majority of villages were built around a church, mosques are hardly noticeable. Most of them are barely recognizable as such from the outside and often, only a sign indicates that there is a mosque behind an inconspicuous entrance to a home in a residential area or in commercial areas outside the city centers. The term coined in German for such tucked-away mosques is "Hinterhofmoschee," or "backyard mosque." While descriptively apt, it can have a denigrating connotation.
One exception is the Cologne
 ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
Central Mosque, part of Ditib. Designed by German star architect Paul Böhm and open since 2017, the modern and imposing Islamic sacred building, made primarily of glass and exposed concrete, is flanked by two 55-meter-high curved minarets that rise well above the surrounding buildings. It was originally intended to be Germany's largest mosque, but the design was changed after criticism of the building plans. It can accommodate 1,200 worshippers, as many as the Ditib mosque in the Marxloh district of the western German city of Duisburg.
FEW USE THE MUEZZIN CALL TO PRAYER
In Islamic countries, a muezzin traditionally calls out daily prayers, as well as Friday's public prayers from the minaret. Mosques may do so as well in Germany, but they rarely do. Most mosques in Germany don't have a minaret. In addition, the practice is not widely accepted in society. Opponents of the muezzin call consider it a noise nuisance and criticize the religious confession it expresses. They argue that unlike church bells, the call has a theological meaning. The muezzin's call is heard regularly from only about 30 mosques in Germany.
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