Al Noor Mosque (Christchurch)

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Al Noor Mosque (2019)

The Al-Noor Mosque (Arabic: مسجد النور) is a mosque on the edge of Hagley Park in the Riccarton district of Christchurch , Canterbury , New Zealand .

The mosque was built between 1984 and 1985 after Muslims had lived in the Canterbury area since 1874. The construction was supported with 460,000 New Zealand dollars from the state of Saudi Arabia . The mosque is supported by the Muslim Association of Canterbury , which has 550 members from 40 countries of origin. It was the first mosque on New Zealand's South Island and until 1999 the southernmost mosque in the world.

After two Muslim converts with alleged links to al-Qaida , the Australian Christopher Havard and the Australian-New Zealander Daryl Jones, were killed by US drones in Yemen in November 2013, Havard's parents charged the two young men came into contact with a radical Islam for the first time in 2011 in the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch. The imam at the time rejected this accusation, since radical Islam was never taught in the Al Noor mosque and it is also rejected. Richard Jackson from the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago was skeptical about the Havard family's allegations: he considered them far-fetched and suspected that the two young men had radicalized themselves on the Internet.

The mosque was the target of an attack by an Australian right-wing extremist on March 15, 2019, leaving at least 50 people dead and injured.

Web links

Commons : Christchurch Mosque  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edoardo Liotta / James Borrowdale: Terrorism in Christchurch: One of New Zealand's “Darkest Days”. In: Vice. March 15, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Fighting, killing 'not the Muslim way'. In: stuff.co.nz. December 3, 2015, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Masjid An-Nur in Riccarton, Canterbury. In: www.salatomatic.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Drone victims 'radicalized' at mosque. In: stuff.co.nz. June 5, 2014, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Assassination attempt in Christchurch: Police find more dead. In: Spiegel Online . March 16, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .

Coordinates: 43 ° 31 ′ 58.6 ″  S , 172 ° 36 ′ 42.3 ″  E